Vestnik Novosibirskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Seriâ: Socialʹno-Èkonomičeskie Nauki (Dec 2014)
HISTORICAL STORIES OF THE HISTORICAL SCHOOL
Abstract
The paper discusses a scientific program and paradigm of the historical school as well as the role it plays in economics and shows that there are diametrically opposite viewpoints on how studies of this research area has impacted on the development of economic thoughts in the past and what impacts can be observed today. It also describes the principle differences between historical school’s representatives and those of classical economics; analyzes how different authors understand the notions of the scientific program and paradigm of the historical school; the specifics of the studies of this research area and concludes that it is not worth confusing such studies with historical or economical ones as they could be done within the framework of the alternative approaches. The paper presents the achievements of historical school, which are universally recognized or/and widely applied by the different branches of science and new arguments in favor of the continuity and mutual influence of historical school, Marxism, and old American institutionalism .
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