Theoretical and Applied Economics
No. 1 / 2011 (554)
Time and Causality in the Economic Process – a Critical Approach Based on Consistency Criteria
University „Lucian Blaga”, Sibiu
Vasile BRĂTIAN
University „Lucian Blaga”, Sibiu
Camelia OPREAN
University „Lucian Blaga”, Sibiu
Abstract. Our paper proposes a critical analysis based on criteria of consistency of the fundamental concepts underlying the comprehensive description of economic process, namely: time, context and causality. Issues of such action taken by us arise from the existence of the fact that the emergence of new paradigms, amid an economic complexity, should include elements of theoretical, instrumental and methodological nature. Moreover, dominant economic science, at this time (positivist), is subject to an epistemological imperialism exercised by Newtonian mechanics, without one's own epistemology. Regarding the underlying causality explaining the economic process, we find that, yet at this time, it is a singular and efficient one (in the Aristotelian sense), but not a teleological one, so we wonder whether the final causality (purpose form) may better explain the economic process and his completeness, and in this sense, the shaping of new paradigms based on premises other than those already existed, in understanding the economic process.
Contents
Considerations Regarding the Mix of Anticrisis Fiscal Policies in Romania
Women Entrepreneurship in the Western Romania. Research Results and Policy Recommendations
How to Improve Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Profitability by Practicing an Efficient Human Resources Management
Time and Causality in the Economic Process – a Critical Approach Based on Consistency Criteria
The Reform of the National Public Policies Process under the Influence of Europeanization Changes in the Policy-Making in Romania on Institutional and Legislative Level
Re-modeling the Romanian Fiscal Policy under the Terms of the Economic Crisis
New Hypothesis on Service Management within the Global World
Current Economic and Financial Crisis – New Issues or Returning to the Old Problems? Paradigms, Causes, Effects and Solutions Adopted
Contributions of Agriculture to Economic Fluctuations in Romania
Foreign Direct Investments Expansion – Essential Globalization Factor
Implications of Asymmetric Information in the Real Estate Crisis in US
The Crowding out Effect on the Labor Market in Romania