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Certain Methodological Problems Of Contemporary Economic Science

Author(s): Miloš S. Krstić, Dragoslav Kitanović
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Универзитет у Нишу
Keywords: Empirical laws; exact laws; methodological holism; methodological individualism; freedom

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents certain methodological problems and tasks of contemporary economic science. The connection between empirical and exact, analogy between biological beings and social achievements, collectivism, etc. represent only in part the interests of modem economy that has for a task to shape the unshaped, to make path where there is not any and to offer help to economy and society in the labyrinth of socio-economic reality. Economy is a multi-disciplinary science. Connection to the insights of sociology, psychology, philosophy, mathematics and the like, enables contemporary economic science to explore and examine human as a rational, spiritual and moral being. Mathematics and econometrics are useful disciplines, but lack the ability to translate the analysis of the deepest riddles of human life into their own language. Economists should help in building the institutions that protect and advance human freedom.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 199-209
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English