Economic as a Theoretical Science and Its Relationship to the Historical and Pratical Economic Sciences – Part 2

Authors

  • Carl Menger

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30800/mises.2014.v2.577

Keywords:

Research Guidelines, Historicism, Economics Laws

Abstract

In this text Menger continues his criticism of the German Historical School methodological tenets, arguing that there are different valid branches of economic research. A theoretical or general branch in contrast to the historical or particular, which identifies types and establishes laws. This theoretical kind of investigation is, then, divided in a realistic and an exact “orientations of research”, the former contemplating several aspects of a particular complex economic phenomenon and the latter isolating the effects of a particular cause, such as the search for economic gain, and establishing exact laws that are valid only in this abstract setting.

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Published

2014-06-01

How to Cite

1.
Menger C. Economic as a Theoretical Science and Its Relationship to the Historical and Pratical Economic Sciences – Part 2. MisesJournal [Internet]. 2014 Jun. 1 [cited 2024 Nov. 15];2(1):55-67. Available from: https://www.misesjournal.org.br/misesjournal/article/view/577

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Economics, Methodology and Praxiology