Advocacy of 'methodological individualism' is widespread, especially among economists. However, the term is rarely defined with adequate precision and some crucial ambiguities are explored in this article. Among these is the commonplace ambivalence over whether explanations should be in terms of...

Utility, Rationality and Methodological Individualism (URMI) are the dominant aspects which determine the paradigm of ethics applicable in economic decision making process. Generally, in traditional economics the decision-making process for individuals has no significant space for ethics as...

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,...

Вопрос о кризисе экономической теории то возникает, то затухает в зависимости от устойчивости рыночно-капиталистической системы. Экономический рост во второй...