The paper outlines the contemporary state of the economic science in Bulgaria, acquired as a result of the changes over the last 12 years. The analysis is carried out in five major directions – predefining of the subject, main theoretical and methodological orientations, thematic orientation...

The development of economic science before 1989 has been analysed. The spectrum of research works between 1948 and 1989 has been outlined, including the influence of Western theories. The change of paradigms after 1990 has been underlined; as well as new institutional structures; overcoming the...

Criticism of the fundamental classical postulates is the main focus of attention of the institutional theory. In their works, a number of representatives of the institutionalism have expresses their strong disagreement with the hedonistic principles of profit and loss as being the primary...

The paper deals with the development of economic theory during the XX century. It aims to present some of the main steps and achievements of economic thought in the last century. Sharing the vision, that pluralism is the principal characteristics of the development of the XX century economic...

The institutional theory is, to a great extent, filled with criticism of the main classical postulates. Many institutionalists question in their works the hedonistic principle of profit and loss as a main motivating factor for human behavior. The main classical concepts result from relatively...

An attempt is made for critical assessment of a fundamental category of the neoclassical economics by means of the contemporary institutional and evolutionary analysis. The concept of the scarcity of the economic goods is critically analysed within evolutionary-biological, social and specific...

The article is an answer to the publication The Ideas of Ludwig von Mises for the Development of the Austrian Economic School by N. Gerchev (iss. 4/ 2005), constructed as a critical analysis of positions and statements, presented in our study on the Austrian School. An attitude has been taken...

The article analyses the main postulates of the evolution – institutional theory, that has emerged in 1980s as a unity of the third stage of the development of the "old" institutionalism and the evolution economic theory. The main achievements of three representatives of this trend are...

An attempt was made to sum up the basic socio-economic issues in Karl Polanyi's book “The Great Transformation”, which is less known by the economists in our country. Suggesting an alternative to Marx's market economic analysis at the early stages of establishing and imposing the capitalist...

The article continues a publication with the same title and outlines the development of the economic theory during the 20th century. The review of the evolution of the neoclassical school ends with the study on the emergence and development of modern macroeconomics. Special attention is put on...