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Theoretical and Applied Economics
No. 12 / 2010 (553)

Ideal-Functional

„The crisis of solutions is the perverted expression of the intention for conservation and, after the recession, of the performance in redistributing the added value, the appropriation ideal being already now half and half between speculation and rationality.”


The conceptual fixation of Economics in the theory of equilibrium (as an equally ideal and functional state) does not differ from the manner in which Physics and Cosmology had remained, until a few centuries ago, captive to Aristotelian materialism and Ptolemaic sphericity, respectively. Mankind has covered its ignorance with the sufficiency of the ideal, building structures and relations in which the functional principle was only accepted if the path of sui-generis balancing between the demands of authority (including the scientific one) and their tacit acceptance by the remaining majority was made possible.

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