International Economic Policy (Mar 2013)
Methodological Discourse of International Economic Policy
Abstract
This article analyzes the methodological discourse of international economic policy (IEP), which is considered, on the one hand, in the context of structural levels, and, on the other hand, from the perspective of international (global) political economy. In particular, distinctive features of using the philosophical, general science, specific science and applied methodology in the study of global economic problems, in creating the principles, forms, mechanisms and tools of international economic policy are clarified. The philosophical methodology is used to determine meaningful ontology of IEP, its epistemological dimensions are linked to the basic types of scientific rationality, its epistemological structure is directly based on the international (global) political economy. The full range of relationships that operate in the global economy between countries, regions, individuals and legal entities in the production, distribution, exchange and consumption of goods and services is reflected in the international political economy. Presence of several leading scientific schools makes it possible to outline the different aspects of a complicated methodological structure of IEP. However, none of the concepts has yet acquired the paradigmatic status in the international political economy.
