Abstract

POSSO ORDONEZ, Roberto. ECONOMIC CONCEPTS AND PRINCIPLES AND METHODOLOGIES USED IN ECONOMIC RESEARCH. Tend. [online]. 2014, vol.15, n.1, pp.228-241. ISSN 0124-8693.  https://doi.org/10.22267/rtend.141501.58.

This essay could be classified as descriptive, since it deals with topics concerning the economic field. It is structured in two parts: the first one presents a summary of the different definitions of Economy as a science, definitions provided by economists belonging to the different schools and trends of thought starting with (classics, commercialists, neo-classics, monetarism and finishing up with some of the contemporary ones). The second part is a brief analysis of the contributions made by some of the great mathematicians, which support the new theories developed by contemporary researchers as well as the different methodologies used by the different economists that created, developed and structured laws and principles that allowed the objectives of Economy as a science to be determined.

JEL: A11, B41, C20

Keywords : Role of the economics; Economic Mythology Mathematical Models..

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