scholarly journals LA FORMALIZZAZIONE MATEMATICA NELLE TEORIE ECONOMICHE: PROBLEMI E PROSPETTIVE

2013 ◽  
pp. 73-89
Author(s):  
Giovanni Marseguerra
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Quantitative Approach ◽  
Peculiar Feature ◽  
Economic Science ◽  
Real Economy ◽  
The Real ◽  
Mathematical Formalization ◽  
Development Of Economic Theory

Riassunto. – All’interno della comunità degli economisti sembra essere oggi presente un crescente disagio e un diffuso malcontento relativamente alle capacità della modellistica neoclassica di comprendere e spiegare i fenomeni economici. La relazione intende esaminare criticamente il contributo della formalizzazione matematica nelle teorie economiche, mettendo in evidenza sia punti di forza di un tale approccio sia le debolezze insite in un’analisi che rischia spesso di privilegiare la bellezza dello strumento rispetto all’oggetto di studio. Si considerano poi alcune delle moderne prospettive per l’indagine economica offerte dalla modellistica basata sulla simulazione a computer che consente di tener conto della complessità della realtà in misura maggiore di un approccio puramente analitico. Viene infine evidenziata l’importanza di garantire la coesistenza di una pluralità di scuole di pensiero in economia e si esaminano altresì le difficoltà per la valutazione della ricerca provocate dall’esistenza di un paradigma dominante. Nelle conclusioni viene enfatizzata la necessità di considerare l’economia come una vera scienza sociale.***Abstract. – There is today a widespread discontent within the international economists’ community as far as the capacity of the dominant neoclassical paradigm both to enhance our knowledge of economic phenomena and increase our capacity of governing the real economy. Somehow surprisingly, the lack of explicative relevance of the theory went almost hand in hand with the massive use of mathematics to formalize the theory. In order to investigate this peculiar feature of the evolution of economic science, this paper examines the contribution of mathematical formalization to the development of economic theory in the last sixty years pointing out both weaknesses as well as merits of a quantitative approach to economics. Finally, the need to consider economics as a truly social science si strongly emphasized.

How Many Paradigms There are in Economic Theory – and Can it Become a One-paradigm Science

2021 ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Dmitrij Egorov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Economic Science ◽  
Individual Choice ◽  
Equilibrium System ◽  
The Past ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Modern Economic ◽  
Development Of Economic Theory ◽  
Science Subject

Over the past 100 years, economics has stood out from other scientific disciplines because of the presence of two fundamentally different approaches to understanding its subject: from a systemic point of view, and from the point of view of individual choice. All the main directions of modern economic theory turn out to be reducible to two paradigms, conceptually related to two main interpretations of the economic science subject. The understanding of the economy as an equilibrium or non-equilibrium system is associated with two said paradigms. The author believes that the development of economic theory after Keynes can be interpreted as a series of attempts to integrate the identified paradigms. In another form, this is the question of the synthesis of micro- and macro-approaches in economic theory. 

scholarly journals Trends in the development of economic theory and economic science

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-77
Author(s):  
S. S. Repin
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Economic Science ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Development Of Economic Theory

Economic theory today is characterized by high development, current changes that contain the main attitudes, technologies, firms — their economic interests, general psychological actions on government steps of influence.

scholarly journals ECONOMIC PROBLEMS OR CRISIS OF ECONOMIC SCIENCE

2018 ◽  
pp. 81-85
Author(s):  
ROMAN KHARBEDIA
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Economic Science ◽  
Real Economy ◽  
Economic Theories ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Socialist System ◽  
Crisis Situation

The collapse of the socialist system in the 90s of the last century and the break-up of the Soviet Union put the issue of transition from the administrative-command economy to the market economy on the agenda. It was necessary to carry out a proper economic policy based on a certain theoretical basis, but the events have clearly demonstrated the limitations of the current level of economic science; it was impossible to predict the economic problems faced by these countries, while at the same time it did not have theoretical justification for their solution. The global financial crisis that began in 2008 has actually turned down the viewpoints of the visible representatives of economic science and greatly damaged the reputation of economic science. These circumstances have raised some questions about economic science and gave some researchers the grounds for assessing such a situation of economic science as a crisis situation. The situation of economic science can be called crisis in that case when serious problems arising in real economy and the tasks facing the economy cannot be solved by the methods existing in the arsenal of economic science, or economic science has no answers to the ways and methods of solving these tasks. Consequently, economic science had been in crisis periods in 1929-1932, so called “Great Depression”, the collapse of the socialist system or the 2008-2009 financial crisis periods. Some researchers link the dangers of economic science to the diversity of economic theories and consider the latter to be one of the forms of crisis detection, which is not valid. The existence of different versions of economic theories is not due to the crisis situation of economic science, but because of the peculiarities of the emergence of each new economic theory. Unlike the exact and technical sciences, economic theory does not eliminate previous theories, but expands its borders on the development and diversification of economics. So the hard economic situation of a particular country is caused by other factors, not by the diversity of economic theories or the crisis situation of economic science.

scholarly journals F. Von Hayek: Invention of the Enemy and Modern Neoliberalism

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 022-029
Author(s):  
Petr A. Orekhovsky ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Market Design ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Science ◽  
Private Money ◽  
Political Category ◽  
Development Of Economic Theory

The paper considers the evolution of the category “political” in the development of economic theory of the XVIII – XX centuries. It demonstrates the departure of economic science from ideological assessments characteristic for the antagonistic relations of early capitalism. In the 1940s – 1950s F. von Hayek reintroduces the concept of “enemy” into economic researches, which is met with strong rejection by the Western establishment, which is under the influence of Keynesianism. F. von Hayek is one of the founders of neoliberalism, within the framework of which an antagonistic confrontation between the “blind forces of the market” and the “dictatorship of a group of people” is being constructed. Thus, a dilemma is imposed, which does not provide an opportunity to understand the mechanisms of market design. Von Hayek is making great efforts to create a transatlantic network of neoliberal organizations based on the Mont Pelerin Society. Long work leads to the fact that in the 1970s. neoliberalism is becoming the ideology - hegemon. At present, the political category retains its significance in economic science. Ideological constructs such as human capital, private money, diffused knowledge, despite their utopianism, continue to transform reality

ABOUT CONCEPTUAL SCHEMES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ECONOMIC SCIENCE

2020 ◽  
pp. 56-62
Author(s):  
Cyril V. FENIN
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
Economic Science ◽  
Economic Knowledge ◽  
Science Knowledge ◽  
Conceptual Schemes ◽  
Development Of Economic Theory

We carried out a theoretical analysis of various concepts used to describe and explain the development, progress and evolution of economic theory (economic science). The study found that the dynamics and transformations of economic theory were described using models of the development of scientific knowledge of three prominent philosophers and thinkers, namely: K.R. Popper, T. Kuhn and I. Lakatos. Nevertheless, the merits of each of these conceptual schemes are balanced by shortcomings, following mainly from the fact that K.R. Popper, T. Kuhn and I. Lakatos's concepts were developed to analyze the development of natural science knowledge. In this regard, an attempt was made to describe and explain the development of economic science through the use of an earlier approach - the law of the intellectual evolution of humanity by A. Comte. This approach reveals its advantages, expressed in the simplicity of presentation, openness to further research and interpretation of new results in the field of research on the development of economic thought. At the same time, it is worth noting the existence of shortcomings of the author's approach, consisting in the difficulty of establishing a chronological framework for the development of economic theory, the impossibility of using the A. Comte's law to describe the evolution of all economic schools, the fuzziness of the boundaries (periods) of the development of economic knowledge and a simplified understanding of the development of science itself as non-discontinuous progress - improvement.

Introduction: Just financial markets? Finance in a just society

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Herzog
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Real Economy ◽  
Economic Perspective ◽  
The Real ◽  
Just Society

The introductory chapter explains some basic mechanisms of financial markets and how they were traditionally justified by economic theory. It introduces some of the questions about financial markets that can be asked from a perspective of justice. Financial markets have often been treated as the prototype of well-functioning markets, but they deviate from textbook models in a number of ways: their products are legal artifices often at some distance from the real economy; their participants often do not carry the full risk of their behavior and instead of always tending toward an equilibrium they can develop destabilizing dynamics. The case for reform both from an economic perspective and from a perspective of justice is therefore strong. The introduction concludes by providing an overview of the chapters of the volume.

Critical Success Factors in Russian R&D Projects in the Real Economy

2010 ◽  
pp. 41-61
Author(s):  
V. Andreev
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Real Economy ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Industrial Products ◽  
Successful Development ◽  
The Real ◽  
Critical Success

The article discusses the concept of "success" in relation to innovative business and its performance. The quantity of innovative projects that can consistently overcome the stages of the innovation process to achieve the desired result is defined. The author presents the results of empirical research of successful and unsuccessful projects of leading Russian innovative companies in various industries, identifies key factors of successful development of new industrial products.

Macroeconomic Equilibrium Theory in the Context of Methodological Problems of Contemporary Economic Science

2008 ◽  
pp. 77-88
Author(s):  
M. Likhachev
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Equilibrium States ◽  
Equilibrium Theory ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Economic Science ◽  
The Real ◽  
Theoretical Status ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Real Stability

The article is devoted to the analysis of methodological problems in using the conception of macroeconomic equilibrium in contemporary economics. The author considers theoretical status and relevance of equilibrium conception and discusses different areas and limits of applicability of the equilibrium theory. Special attention is paid to different epistemological criteria for this theory taking into account both empirical analysis of the real stability of economic systems and the problem of unobservability of equilibrium states.

Global Financial Crisis and Its Impact on Russia

2009 ◽  
pp. 9-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Kudrin
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Fiscal Policy ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Central Bank ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Real Economy ◽  
Energy Prices ◽  
Russian Government ◽  
The Real

The article examines the causes of origin and manifestation of the current global financial crisis and the policies adopted in developed countries in 2007—2008 to deal with it. It considers the effects of the financial crisis on Russia’s economy and monetary policy of the Central Bank in the current conditions as well as the main guidelines for the fiscal policy under different energy prices. The measures for fighting the crisis that the Russian government and the Central Bank use to support the real economy are described.

The Idea of a Meaningful Synthesis of Marxist and Non-Marxist Systems of Political Economy as a Mirror of Intellectual Turmoil (About V.T. Ryazanov’s Book «Modern Political Economy: Prospects of Neo-Marxist Synthesis»)

2019 ◽  
pp. 74-98
Author(s):  
A.B. Lyubinin
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Economic Science ◽  
Objective Reality ◽  
Commodity Production ◽  
Subjective Assessments ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Political Economic

Review of the monograph indicated in the subtitle V.T. Ryazanov. The reviewer is critical of the position of the author of the book, believing that it is possible and even necessary (to increase the effectiveness of General economic theory and bring it closer to practice) substantial (and not just formal-conventional) synthesis of the Marxist system of political economy with its non-Marxist systems. The article emphasizes the difference between the subject and the method of the classical, including Marxist, school of political economy with its characteristic objective perception of the subject from the neoclassical school with its reduction of objective reality to subjective assessments; this excludes their meaningful synthesis as part of a single «modern political economy». V.T. Ryazanov’s interpretation of commodity production in the economic system of «Capital» of K. Marx as a purely mental abstraction, in fact — a fiction, myth is also counter-argued. On the issue of identification of the discipline «national economy», the reviewer, unlike the author of the book, takes the position that it is a concrete economic science that does not have a political economic status.

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