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Alexandru POPOVICI
Universitatea Româno-Americană
Based on the ontological and epistemological problems and solutions exposed in the previous paper, we engage in an analysis of the philosophical grounds of three main schools of economics. A careful and unprejudiced examination of the original writings shows that the common ideas and labels (reductionism vs. holism, individualism vs. institutionalism, positivism vs. dialectics, apriorism vs. inductionism etc.) on these schools are misleading. They are not opposing one another as solid blocks of incompatible ideas and theories, but each school contains different approaches and trends, which maintain their internal life and sustain the dialogue between them.

ŒCONOMICA no. 2/2014
Keywords: philosophy of economics, ontology, epistemology, knowledge methods
JEL: A10, A12, B00, B31, B41
The Philosophy of Economics. The Austrian, Neo-Keynesian, and Neo-Marxist Schools [Filozofia ştiinţelor economice. Şcolile Austriacă, neo-keynesiană şi neo-marxistă]