Invisible Hand in the Process of Making Economics or on the Method and Scope of Economics

Authors

  • Turan Yay Yildiz Technical University, Department of Economics, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Huseyin Tastan Yildiz Technical University, Department of Economics, Istanbul, Turkey

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2298/PAN1001061Y

Keywords:

Invisible hand, Scope and method in economics, Economics as an applied mathematics, Economics as an empirical science, Economics as ideology

Abstract

As a social science, economics cannot be reduced to simply an a priori science or an ideology. In addition economics cannot be solely an empirical or a historical science. Economics is a research field which studies only one dimension of human behavior, with the four fields of mathematics, econometrics, ethics and history intersecting one another. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the two parts of the proposition above, in connection with the controversies surrounding the method and the scope of economics: economics as an applied mathematics and economics as a predictive/empirical science.

Key words: Invisible hand, Scope and method in economics, Economics as an applied mathematics, Economics as an empirical science, Economics as ideology.
JEL: B41, B23.

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Published

2010-10-10

How to Cite

Yay, T., & Tastan, H. (2010). Invisible Hand in the Process of Making Economics or on the Method and Scope of Economics. Panoeconomicus, 57(1), 61–83. https://doi.org/10.2298/PAN1001061Y

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Original scientific paper