The approach is justified by the fact that the period 2009-2012 was characterized by an economic crisis that Romania has experienced to the fullest, and because it is important to identify the sectoral behavior of Romanian companies in the foreign markets in this period. The dimension of...

The construction of an Aggregate Financial Stability Index represents one of the methods used for assessing the level and dynamics of financial sector stability.

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...

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

This essay does not attempt to discuss the problem of knowledge and science as they are. Starting from a (possible) working hypothesis according to which knowledge is the process through which the man (in different socio-cultural contexts) awards a meaning to the world (real, possible, virtual)...

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.