The economic crisis is changing the structure of our society, introducing insurmountable inequalities, marginalizing younger energies, stifling scientific research and so inhibiting the possibility to develop the new ideas and innovations that could help to guide us out of the crisis. Science can provide crucial tools that could be instrumental both in comprehending the problems of our time and in outlining perspectives that might constitute a solid and viable alternative to the rampant jungle law—a misconstrued Social Darwinism—that is currently very widespread. The present work ponders the interface between science dissemination and scientific policy and it aims to show how the ideas developed over the past century in natural sciences actually play a major role in understanding the seemingly diverse and unrelated problems lying at the heart of the current crisis and thus suggesting plausible and original solutions.
Strictly the “scientific method” includes experimental techniques too, whilst “logic” does not, unless you find that the particular logic of an experimental result justifies the need for making it. What I am saying is that we are now arguing semantics, not serious in-depth reasoning.
francesco sylos labini 
By “science” the author should mean, the process of gaining scientific knowledge based on logic, I hope! My book does that too.
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I would say gaining scientific knowledge based on the scientific method
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Strictly the “scientific method” includes experimental techniques too, whilst “logic” does not, unless you find that the particular logic of an experimental result justifies the need for making it. What I am saying is that we are now arguing semantics, not serious in-depth reasoning.
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Indeed logic without experiments can go very wrong as neoclassical economics theory teaches us.
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