METOD EKONOMSKE ANALIZE KAO DEO METODA DRUŠTVENIH NAUKA
METHOD OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AS A PART OF THE METHODS OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

Summary/Abstract: The economic process is understood as a set of different phenomena that express forms of human action in social production. These phenomena are repeated in a certain way, that is, there are certain regularities in the course of the economic process, the manifestation of a certain social phenomenon in it. And precisely these (scientifically identified) regularities of objectively conditioned human behavior and actions in the economic process are called economic laws. Many processes, phenomena and relationships appear in society, among which there are also sporadic, accidental ones, which are not repeated, but are present in social production. Economic laws are the regularities of establishing the most important relations and the development of phenomena in the totality of human activity in the process of social production. Certain economic phenomena or processes in the economic life of people are interdependent, so that one phenomenon or process necessarily conditions or causes another phenomenon. That is why we are talking about causal (causal) connections between phenomena in people's economic life. As internal, essential connections in production relations, economic laws explain the general phenomena. Therefore, scientific research, as A. Marshall emphasizes, should not deal with the consequences of known causes or the causes of known consequences, because they are not the most important, but what is not seen in phenomena, and is crucial for social life. In such an understanding, economic laws are also presented as a "never precisely determined average" of the multiplicity of repetition of phenomena in a large number of individual economic relations.

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