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...

Our research aims at analyzing de possibility of formulating a theory of firms’ network, as an organisational form. The research begins by presenting the concept of complex adaptive systems, next we continue with two complementary points of view regarding the business network; in the third...

Approaching economic freedom from an institutional perspective provides realistic economic insights. This study emphasizes the correlation between extending economic freedom and real GDP per capita, human development, global competitiveness, and the diminution of corruption, by comparing the...

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). 

In the economic (more generally, social) domain the factual testing of the opinions (either theories or hypotheses) is compromised by at least five non-orthodoxies: non-invariance of the initial conditions, teleology (purposes), hermeneutics of the factual experience, normativity inside the...

The paper treats the issue of prediction in the economic (social) field, in a theoretical framework that replaces the truth with the reasonability. In this end, some already accepted parameters around the prediction need reconfiguration: causality to be replaced with explanatory protocol,...

The implications political regimes upon trade policy are going to be praxeologically deduced and used in order to provide an alternative historical interpretation of protectionism and free trade throughout Western history, starting from the Middle Ages right up to the creation of the WTO/GATT....

Institutions are the rules that guide social interactions. By creating incentives or constraints, they guide human actions in the social cooperation process. Society is a reflection of social cooperation and becomes, in fact, the expression of the existing institutional frame. In this paper,...

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...