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How Can Economic Theory Benefit from the Studies of Its History?

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Brzezinski M., Kostro K.

Ekonomista

2006

issue 6

745-770

The article takes up the issue of the low weight that is attributed to the history of economic thought in economic research. The authors aim at substantiating the thesis that the enquiry into the paths of development of economics in the past has great relevance for the contemporary thinking on economic theory and the results of investigative work of researchers. They attempt to prove that the orientation in the history of economic thought albeit not indispensable for the mastering of modern economics or its research toolbox, might greatly help economists' cognizance and skills in their endeavors to follow and understand contemporary phenomena, irrespective of their particular fields of interest. Comments and considerations concerning the attitudes of historians of economic thought toward the contemporary situation conclude the article.

Economics and other Social Sciences at the Beginning of XXI Century. Between Imperialism and Cooperation

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Brzezinski M., Gorynia M., Hockuba Z.

Ekonomista

2008

issue 2

201-232

The nature and substance of relations among economics and other social sciences is complex. The relations vary in time. Since the late 1950, social sciences (law, management, political science, sociology, anthropology, psychology, economic history, geography) had been subjected to invasive inroads by economics. Economic theories and notions were used to explain phenomena that traditionally belonged to other disciplines, Starting from 1980. we observe a reversal - economics addresses other bodies of knowledge (e.g. experimental psychology, management or sociology) to supply it with data and the obtained results. In the article it is shown that this 'sui generis' economic imperialism had constituted an interdisciplinary extension of the methodological ideal of unification, which was present in the economic theory of main stream. We inspire to demonstrate that the reversal and the consecutive opening of economics towards other theories, that is, its partial departure from imperialism, had its roots in the internal theoretical and empirical problems encountered by economists. We formulate a methodological assessment of the process of reorientation of economics towards the cooperation with other sciences.

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How Can Economic Theory Benefit from the Studies of Its History?

Economics and other Social Sciences at the Beginning of XXI Century. Between Imperialism and Cooperation