Theoretical and Applied Economics
No. 7 / 2013 (584)
Indirect determinism
„Looking at the cognitive attitude of parsimony, culturally inculcated by operating on cognition with Occam's razor, there are visible only the direct effects of a cause, or at most those of other collateral causes. The indirect effects of an explicit cause are, however, neglected.”
The paradigm of the organism, whose pliancy on the knowledge model for complexity is much easier to understand, reveals surprizing contents in determinism.
Together with other social sciences, psychology and anthropology most of all, Economics has proceeded to applying step by step the theory of determinism in order to expose the chain of causes which would be able to justify as many of the effects as possible. Causal linking has generally become a sort of cognitive reflex, a formula to spontaneously be called upon by the common knowledge when faced with complex situations.
Contents
Oltenia’s identity – A systemic approach of a tourism destination’s universe
Perspectives of economics – behavioural economics
Business cycles synchronization in the European Union: truth or challenge?
Saving and economic growth: An empirical analysis for Euro area countries
Security of M-Commerce transactions
A model for measuring value for money in professional sports
The influence of modern epistemological streams. The case of epistemological anarchism
From a holistic approach of public policy to co-governance
Reference vectors in economic choice
The economic and communication implications of tourism in Romania