The ideas have a fundamental importance for world’s destiny.

A market for ideas may be, in a sense, “priceless”, since it may be relying on a somehow different kind of “value standard” (“truth-, goodwill-, beauty-, virtue- seeking”) than the “mundane” intangible serviceability of tangible goods, but, in another sense, it uses labour,...

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...

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 paper analyses the presuppositions (often implicit) the actual quantitative and logical modelling is based on. In the context, some points of view are proposed, aimed at to eliminate or reduce the incertitude and vagueness generated by the actual way of understanding the macroeconomic modelling.

The purpose of this paper is threefold: (1) to examine briefly the history and development of the major methodological controversies in economic science

The inflation phenomenology offers to the author the occasion to perform a theoretical, i.e. an abstract analyze, that identifies the comprehensive notional typology family of this phenomenology.