Взаимоотношенията между икономика и политика в обществените науки — един стар въпрос, поставен отново
Interrelationships between Economics and Politics in Social Sciences - an Old Issue Revisited

Summary/Abstract: Sometimes differences in social sciences seem to be a result not that much of their conclusions, hut because of the different referents in reality, which correspond to commonly used nations. Contradictions among them appear as a result of different conceptual constructions for one and the same phenomenon as well. Therefore, under certain circumstances, the scholarly debate is reduced to a linguistic dispute in a search of the most adequate operationalization of the observations. The logic of the current study can be apprehended as a movement from the general towards the specific. The first part resemble a prolegomenon discussing some of the tools in social sciences typical inferences and arguments, definitions, demonstration techniques, research agendas. The last two parts are a panopticon of the basic theories on the issue under discussion. The presentation inclides not only supporters and opponents of different views, but also agnostics with alternative suggestions. The goal of the investigation is not to offer an unambiguous answer [because possible ones are already available], but to determine the conditions under which these answers are valid, as well as their temporal and spatial limitations. The relationships between economics and politics can be causal links. On different occasions they can as a consequent or antecedent when considered separately, but not simultaneously, since causalities are not reversible. Politics and economics can be necessary, but not sufficient conditions too. An indirect relationship is not a rare case. However, it seems that from Aristotle and de Tocqueville to Schumpeter, more controversial is the question of an existing dependence of economics on politics than the other way around.

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