Based on the ontological and epistemological problems and solutions exposed in the previous paper, we scrutinize the philosophical grounds of three main schools of economics. They are not opposing one another as solid blocks of incompatible ideas and theories, but each school contains...

Aristotle presents virtue as an ability to look for righteous valuation, an exercise embraced in the hope that excesses will be suppressed, and shortages recovered. A research program seems to be the representation of this type of virtuous exploration in the scientific field. It accounts for the...

This paper aims at highlighting several origin mercantilist ideas in the works of Dimitrie Cantemir (1673-1726). 

The paper aims to discuss the concept of truth in its relation with causality. More exactly, the relation of causality between… causality and truth recognition is exposed and debated. The three types of truth are presented and examined in the light of the paper purpose, commenting on...

The paper has as goal to revisit the general concept of causality, with some specifications to the social (especially economic) field. The logical conditions of causality (individual causes as well multiple causes) are proposed and evaluated. Based on causality concept, the correlation notion is...

Rapid fall of communism was a surprise to Romanian economists. They lacked any theoretical guide to explain such a historic event and allow them to analyze economic and social processes that followed. Neither political economy of socialism, neither Keynesian nor neoclassical theory have allowed...

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 the economic process, which has been considered (and still is) an extension of...

This study revisits key arguments about method which are part of the traditional Romanian thought. It appears that the domestic concerns were synchronously linked to internationally most debated ideas. The present discussion focuses on the methodological dichotomy between exact and social...

In this paper we try to elucidate the proper manner to evaluate economic theories and systems within the present financial crisis context. The main lines of argumentation are as follows: appeals to facts cannot settle the liberalism/etatism debate; the deadlock has an important...

This article tries to make evident the fact that the scientific endeavour of “macro”-behaviouristic-empiricist paradigms does not have a real basis because it is not grounded on the ultimate principle of society: human action. The emphasis of this article is on the perspective that the most...