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Emil DINGA
Academia Română
The objective of this paper is to try to briefly evaluate the logical and epistemological foundations of the economic science, with the purpose to overcome a series of incoherencies and inconsistencies in modelling, accurately or at least probably true, the economic process. The economic process has been considered (and still is) an extension of the natural process and, because of that, both the economic science (the theory) and the methodology and the instrumentalism that have been associated with this science are of Newtonian origins, forcing this process to be described in a dynamic, laplacian way. This situation led, in our opinion, to a paradigmatic impasse in what we call modelling the economic process, with obvious failures in all directions, including (especially) directions regarding macroeconomic forecasting. Having in mind the semi-impossibility of testing the economic science’s theoretical-methodological hypothesis, these hypothesis are, fatally, “theoretically closed”, meaning their veracity is generated by accepting (in a way, based on… faith) the theory or the theoretical model. Thus, an eventual critic or an evaluation of the veracity of some hypothesis on which the economic process modelling is based have to address the theory or the initial theoretic model. This is the method that will be used in the current paper.
ŒCONOMICA no. 1/2010
Keywords: network, logical living system, emergence, economic process
JEL: B40, B41
Reţea, sistem logic viu şi emergenţă în procesul economic
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