114-0519/01 – Philosophy and Methodology of Economics (FME)
Gurantor department | Department of Economics | Credits | 4 |
Subject guarantor | prof. Ing. Martin Macháček, Ph.D. et Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | prof. Ing. Martin Macháček, Ph.D. et Ph.D. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory type B |
Year | 1 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | English |
Year of introduction | 2019/2020 | Year of cancellation | |
Intended for the faculties | EKF | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
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:
Recommended literature:
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
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction
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