Vol.6, No 3, 2009 pp. 199 - 209
UDC 330.101
CERTAIN METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF CONTEMPORARY ECONOMIC SCIENCE
Dragoslav Kitanović, Miloš Krstić
Faculty of Economics, University of Niš, 18000 Niš, Serbia
dragoslav.kitanovic@eknfak.ni.ac.rs
The paper presents certain methodological problems and tasks of contemporary economic science. The connection between empirical and exact, analogy between biological beings and social achievements, collectivism, etc. represent only in part the interests of modem economy that has for a task to shape the unshaped, to make path where there is not any and to offer help to economy and society in the labyrinth of socio-economic reality. Economy is a multi-disciplinary science. Connection to the insights of sociology, psychology, philosophy, mathematics and the like, enables contemporary economic science to explore and examine human as a rational, spiritual and moral being. Mathematics and econometrics are useful disciplines, but lack the ability to translate the analysis of the deepest riddles of human life into their own language. Economists should help in building the institutions that protect and advance human freedom.
Key Words:  Empirical laws, exact laws, methodological holism, methodological individualism, freedom
NEKI METODOLOŠKI PROBLEMI SAVREMENE EKONOMSKE NAUKE
U ovom radu predstavljeni su neki metodološki problemi i zadaci savremene ekonomske nauke. Veza između empirijskog i egzaktnog, analogija između biološih organizama i društvenih tvorevina, kolektivizam i tako redom, predstavljaju samo deo interesovanja moderne ekonomije koja ima zadatak da oblikuje neobikovano, da trasira netrasirano i da u bespuću društveno-ekonomske zbilje pruži pomoć privredi i društvu. Ekonomija je multidsciplinarna nauka. Povezanost sa saznanjima sociologije, psihologije, filozofije, matematike i sl., savremenoj ekonomskoj nauci omogućuje istraživanje i izučavanje čoveka kao racionalnog, duhovnog i moralnog bića. Matematika i ekonometrija jesu korisne discipline, ali nisu u stanju da na svoj jezik prenesu analizu najdubljih zagonetki ljudskog života. Ekonomisti bi trebalo da pomognu u izgradnji institucija koje štite i unapređuju ljudsku slobodu.
Ključne reči: empirijski zakoni, egzaktni zakoni, metodološki holizam, metodološki individualizam, sloboda