MHR 522 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Demand Curve, Pareto Principle, Neoliberalism
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Lecture 2: textbook part a (paradigms of godard) and part b covered. Part b and c covers neoliberal perspective. Part d and e covers orthodox pluralist. Part f and g covers the radical perspective. Starts as an idea that someone has that is not fully proven to be 100% Not really a fact, since a fact is something that is 100% true. A theory is a way to explain something that we do not understand. It is an attempt to explain something . This means that there can be more than one theory to explain the same thing. Only one is correct but no one knows for sure which is the truth. The opposite of a theory is a fact. A fact is seen as something that is true by all. (the first reading from textbook part a covers the different paradigms in industrial relations) Seen as a set of assumptions, values, norms, morals, etc.