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Theoretical and Applied Economics
No. 3 / 2012 (568)

Silent Confusions

„In its explicative model on the functioning of the rational space called market, Economics lends itself to manipulation by the predominant ideological sensitivities, through the fact that it accepts a skewing of the role and the status offactors in the equation of wealth production. ”


In Economics, assertions do not invariably call on the objective founding of the truth and on the empirical testing of hypotheses. The specificity of cognition in Economics presupposes the replacement of the experiment with the observation -throughout large data series - of the causes and the consequences of economic reality. However, it also presupposes something different, much harder for rational thought to accept: the admission of faith in explaining the way things work, as well as the acceptance of subjective forms of manifestation in the understanding of causality.

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