Politická ekonomie 2014, 62(3):400-417 | DOI: 10.18267/j.polek.958

Fenomenologie jako základ ekonomické metody

Miroslav Svoboda
Vysoká ąkola ekonomická v Praze.

Phenomenology as a Foundation of Economic Method

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.

Keywords: objectivism, subjectivism, Alfred Schutz, economic approach to human behavior, behavioral economics, phenomenology
JEL classification: A12, B40, B53

Published: June 1, 2014  Show citation

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