ISSUES AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL MUTATIONS IN THE ECONOMIC FIELD

Angelica-Nicoleta Onea ()
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Angelica-Nicoleta Onea: „Al. I. Cuza” University of Iasi/Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Bulevardul Carol I, Nr.22, 700506
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Review of Economic and Business Studies, 2012, issue 9, 191-203

Abstract: Knowledge in economics, as well as in other fields included in social sciences, can not be achieved upon the Galilean model, so customary in natural sciences. In time, its transfer conducted to the finding of some inconsistencies at the level of theory or between theory and practice. The subject-object discernibility, a possible simplification in natural science, becomes problematically in social sciences, where this delimitation operates only in theory, and, actually, the effects of the whole "package" are registered in. Also, the repeatability of initial conditions, possible in natural sciences through the control of the variables, becomes inoperative within social sciences that can not recreate the original context. All these lead to the idea that explanatory models and theories based on the causaltype determinism do not provide satisfactory answers. That is why the Aristotelian tradition is brought into attention, emphasizing the determinism of intelligibility type.

Keywords: praxeology; economics; human action; causality; teleology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A14 B49 B59 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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