114-0519/01 – Philosophy and Methodology of Economics (FME)

Gurantor departmentDepartment of EconomicsCredits4
Subject guarantorprof. Ing. Martin Macháček, Ph.D. et Ph.D.Subject version guarantorprof. Ing. Martin Macháček, Ph.D. et Ph.D.
Study levelundergraduate or graduateRequirementChoice-compulsory type B
YearSemesterwinter
Study languageEnglish
Year of introduction2019/2020Year of cancellation
Intended for the facultiesEKFIntended for study typesFollow-up Master
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MAH11 prof. Ing. Martin Macháček, Ph.D. et Ph.D.
Extent of instruction for forms of study
Form of studyWay of compl.Extent
Full-time Credit 2+1

Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences

- To distinguish scientific and non-scientific views of the world - To analyze the ways of economic category creation - To formulate basic principles of economic theory building - To compare different philosophical-methodological base for interpretation of economic events - To understand ideas of economic theory creation

Teaching methods

Lectures
Seminars

Summary

The course is focused on the consolidation of knowledge gained in economics with a deeper understanding of logic and structure of ideological statements. It is therefore to ensure that students understand how representatives of individual schools of economic thought reached the conclusions presented in a simplified form in economics textbooks, and are able to critically evaluate them.

Compulsory literature:

1. BLAUG, Mark. The Methodology of Economics Or How Economists Explain. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 286 p. ISBN 9780521436786. 2. BOUMANS, Marcel and John B. DAVIS. Economic Methodology: Understanding Economics as a Science. 2nd ed. Palgrave, 2015. 248 p. ISBN 978-1137545558. 3. LAWSON, Tony. Essays on the Nature and State of Modern Economics. London: Routledge, 2015. 276 p. ISBN 978-1138851023.

Recommended literature:

1. CALDWELL, Bruce J. Beyond Positivism: Economic Methodology in the Twentieth Century. London: Routledge, 1994. 304 p. ISBN 978-0415109116. 2. FRIEDMAN, Milton The Methodology of Positive Economics. In Essays in Positive Economics. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1966, pp. 3-16, 30-43. ISBN 978-0226264035. 3. HANDS, Wade D. Reflection without Rules: Economic Methodology and Contemporary Science Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 492 p. ISBN 978-0521797962. 4. SNOWDON, Brian and Howard R. VANE. Modern Macroeconomics: Its Origin, Development and Current State. New edition. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Pub., 2005. 832 p. ISBN 978-1845422080.

Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester

In case of ordered distance learning due to the adverse epidemic situation, all credit tests will have to be attempted online via LMS Moodle and MS Teams, while other study requirements remain unchanged.

E-learning

Other requirements

Presentation of a seminar work, the topic of which is philosophy, or sociology and history of science, with application in some areas of economics (eg logical positivism, critical rationalism, holism, see course syllabus), or economic methodology (eg deduction versus induction, the role of experiment in economics, the penetration of economics methods into other sciences and vice versa).

Prerequisities

Subject has no prerequisities.

Co-requisities

Subject has no co-requisities.

Subject syllabus:

1. Science, its concepts and fields, origins, development, and crises. 2. Logical positivism and empirism. Critical rationalism. 3. History and sociology of science. Methodology of scientific research programmes. 4. Methodology of economic science – the Millian tradition. Deductivism. 5. Logical positivism in economics. Economics as empirical science. 6. Popper´s methodology of social sciences. Falsification principle in economics. 7. Scientific revolutions and paradigms in economics. 8. Scientific research programmes in economics. 9. Samuelson´s operationalism. Friedman´s methodology of positive economics. 10. Quantitative economics and the computational experiment. Multiagent approaches in economics. 11. Experimental economics. 12. Rhetorical and onthological turns in economics. Critical realism. 13. Famous methodological battles in economics.

Conditions for subject completion

Full-time form (validity from: 2019/2020 Winter semester)
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(act. for subtasks)
Min. number of pointsMax. počet pokusů
Credit Credit   3
Mandatory attendence participation: Participation in lectures and seminars is not compulsory.

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Conditions for subject completion and attendance at the exercises within ISP: For students with an individual study plan, the same conditions apply as for other students.

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