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ОЦІНКА ПОТЕНЦІАЛУ СИСТЕМ З АКТИВНИМИ ЕЛЕМЕНТАМИ: УПРАВЛІНСЬКИЙ АСПЕКТ

Filippova, Irina; Sumcov, Victor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

interpretation the potential appears as the multivariate, complex, stochastic parameter reflecting dialectics of system’s internal … positive and negative potential from the point of system's useful function and then the an active and passive potential of … system’s elements. In such formulation the purposes of the management becomes expressly measurable. …

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Constant Returns to Scale: Can the Neoclassical Economy Exist?

Alam, M. Shahid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Constant returns to scale (CRS) is one of the corner-stones of the competitive general equilibrium paradigm of neoclassical economics. This note argues that the equilibrium solutions of this paradigm are not compatible with CRS. CRS implies that all producers (whatever their scale of production)...

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Italian-style pluralism in economics

Cavalieri, Duccio; Faucci, Riccardo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994

This is an essay on the philosophy of science and the methodology and historiography of political economy. It deals with theory appraisal and with the question of which rules, if any, should deal with the search for progress in economic knowledge. (Here is the portion of the essay written by...

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Okun’s Law as a Pi-to-1 ratio: A harmonic / trigonometric theory as to why Okun’s Law works

Albers, Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

through a form of mathematic / harmonic inverse. In Part One the Cartesian coordinate system is merged with the legal …

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Reconstruction of concept of Paradigm in Thomas S. Kuhn

Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This article aims to discuss an evaluation of the concept of paradigm of T. Kuhn in his representative work: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions ERC, [Ku96] and the complementary version by W. Stegmüller, Structure and dynamics of theories EDT, [Steg83]. This refined interpretation of the...

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Origins and Development of the Trend towards Value-Free Economics

Drakopoulos, Stavros A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997

The vast majority of pre-Classical and of many Classical economists thought that it was natural to incorporate value judgments and norms in their economic reasoning. However, there was a gradual dominance of the idea of a neutral or value-free economic science which gained momentum with the...

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The Variable Time: crucial to understanding Knowledge Economics

Khumalo, Bhekuzulu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Though time is a concept mostly associated with physics and philosophy, the concept of time is important to be understood in the discipline of economics. This paper attempts to highlight the importance of time in economics, particularly in knowledge economics, the discipline of economics that...

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In Quest of Truth: The War of Methods in Economics

Pillai N., Vijayamohanan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The present paper discusses the ‘battle of methods’ in economics in its epistemic pursuit in the framework of a dialectics between science and art. The traditional distinction between deduction and induction has come to be characterized as a ‘theory-data confrontation’; while the former...

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Mr Marx and the neoclassics

Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1996

This article, presented to the Annual Conference of the History of Economics Society, Vancouver July 1996, gives a historical analysis of the origins of the general equilibrium or comparative static approach and demonstrates that economic thought as a whole is divided, in each of its schools of...

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Friedman’s Methodology: A Puzzle and A Proposal for Generating Useful Debates through Causal Comparisons (with a postscript on positive vs. normative theories)

Khan, Haider A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Milton Friedman’s “The Methodology of Positive Economies” is still one of the most widely read pieces on economic methodology. One reason for this might be Friedman’s attractive proposal that economists use theories and hypotheses as pragmatic devices to summarize data and make...

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