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Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.2478/zireb-2024-0022

The Unending Methodological Debates in Economics

Soumitra Sharma ; Faculty of Economics and Tourism, Pula, Croatia


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Abstract

Economic science, its contents, scope, and significance have been, for over a century and a half, dominated by intense methodological debates among scholars concentrating over issues of positivism, normativity, optimality, and empiricism. The debates are still going on. In this brief review, the author wishes to refresh the ongoing methodological debates that have haunted the wider field of social sciences.

Keywords

epistemological debate; David Hume; laissez-faire; orthodoxy; perfect competition; positivism

Hrčak ID:

323286

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/323286

Publication date:

9.12.2024.

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