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Fenomenologie jako základ ekonomické metody
[Phenomenology as a Foundation of Economic Method]

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  • Miroslav Svoboda

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In recent years, economic approach to human behavior has been challenged by contributions of cognitive science under the name of behavioral economics. As a result, two methodological strands in economics discord with each other: objectivistic (naturalistic) approach refuses the role of motivations in human behavior, adopting methods of natural science; subjectivistic (interpretative) approach, on the other hand, takes the teleological structure of human action as its corner stone. It is argued that position of the latter (esp. rational choice theory) has been undermined because it builds upon primitive version of human teleological structure. The paper shows that phenomenology offers a promising solution. Phenomenology identifies typical, invariant structures of human action and social world, with various degrees of their anonymity. If economic approach is founded on those structures adequately, then both rational choice theory and bounded rationality theories become compatible, as they differ in their degrees of anonymity only; they both belong to the body of (subjectivistic) economic approach to human behavior.

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  • Miroslav Svoboda, 2014. "Fenomenologie jako základ ekonomické metody [Phenomenology as a Foundation of Economic Method]," Politická ekonomie, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2014(3), pages 400-417.
    • Handle: RePEc:prg:jnlpol:v:2014:y:2014:i:3:id:958:p:400-417
    DOI: 10.18267/j.polek.958
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    Keywords

    objectivism; subjectivism; Alfred Schutz; economic approach to human behavior; behavioral economics; phenomenology;
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    JEL classification:

    • A12 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
    • B40 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology - - - General
    • B53 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Austrian

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