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Oscar HOFFMAN

Academia Română

The study deals with the specific of the economical life (generally in the society) as a social-cultural construction of the people.
Three complementary models of thinking are able to be used: a) modernist (substantialist), b) constructivist, c) deconstructivist.
From the point of view of constructivism, we have a “cosubstantiality” of “object” and “subject” in the “real” economical life, which implies the lack of “objective determinism”, but only a dynamic correlation between the social and natural constraints, on the one hand, and liberty, on the other hand.
The study presents the limits of explanations in economics and the sense of interpretation in this field.
The economy (as ontological realm) is the field of social actors activity, and the economics must be a normative perspective (Daniel Bell: “if – then”).

ŒCONOMICA no. 2/2009

Keywords: complementary models of analysis, explanations, interpretations, normativity, determinism, liberty, social actors, motivations

JEL: A13, A14, B00

Obiect – explicaţie – interpretare în discursul economic

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