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Theoretical and Applied Economics
No. 11 / 2012 (576)

Limitations of principle

„Antinomic expressions such as "exiting the crisis is done through more market/more state" point to the risk of measures which follow doctrinary preferences and ideological assumptions, meaning that exiting the crisis would be achieved by inventing the causes of another crisis.”


Methodological fixation has proven to be a quite obvious intellectual disease in academia. It wreaks cognitive destruction in most areas of study, though it seems more prevalent in the social studies. The causes are obscure, at least according to the quietness in the evaluations of educational strategies. In any way, the risk that whole young generations may know only one side of looking at things is real.

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