Poverty of Historicism - Ark Paperbacks Author:Karl Popper The Poverty of Historicism is a devastating criticism of the belief in the laws of history, social development, and progress. It exposes pernicious and influential doctrines and the ideologies erected on them, while offering a systematic and brief account of new ideas for the character and methods of the social sciences, including an indication ... more »of the kind of piecemeal political planning which these methods suggest.« less