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ZAGADNIENIE EPISTEMICZNEGO STATUSU WIEDZY EKONOMICZNEJ
EPISTEMIC STATUS OF ECONOMIC KNOWLEDGE

Author(s): Halina Zboroń
Contributor(s): Anna Ochmańska (Translator)
Subject(s): Economy, Epistemology, Methodology and research technology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: epistemic status; realism; constructivism; methodology;

Summary/Abstract: The subject of undertaken considerations is the issue of the status of economic knowledge. The author reconstructs the epistemological assumptions of methodological concepts and ways of understanding and solving the problems of development and testing the scientific knowledge. The aim is to identify the epistemic status of knowledge within the meaning of orthodox economics and to provide alternative ideas in the form of a constructivist approach.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 40/1
  • Page Range: 71-82
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish