Procedural Semantics and Economic Models

• Autorzy: Jarosław Boruszewski

Warianty tytułu

Semantyka proceduralna a modele ekonomiczne

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The aim of the article is to present issues regarding economic semantics. The key problem is finding a satisfactory view of semantic interpretation for economic models. The author of the article suggests that an adequate version of procedural semantics can provide such a view. This theory combines semantic interpretation with cognitive and practical activities of subjects which use economic models. Philosophical roots of procedural semantics come from the pragmatic and operational theory of meaning. The article contains a detailed discussion of operationalism in economics and a comparison of the specifics of procedural approach to semantics with the philosophical and methodological characteristics of economic models. The version of procedural semantics used in the analysis is Jan Żytkow's semantics of operational procedures, in the light of which Irving Fisher's Cash Loop Model is reconstructed. Directions for further studies of procedural explication of semantics economic models are also outlined, taking into account the methodological specifics of economic sciences.(original abstract)

Artykuł dotyczy zagadnień z zakresu semantyki ekonomicznej. Głównym problemem jest dostarczenie zadowalającego ujęcia interpretacji semantycznej dla modeli ekonomicznych. W artykule wysuwa się propozycję, że teorią, która może dostarczyć takiego ujęcia jest odpowiednia wersja semantyki proceduralnej. Teoria ta wiąże interpretację semantyczną z poznawczo-praktyczną aktywnością użytkowników modeli ekonomicznych. Semantyka proceduralna jest filozoficznie zakorzeniona w pragmatycznej i operacyjnej koncepcji znaczenia. W artykule szczegółowo przedstawiono dyskusje nad operacjonalizmem w ekonomii oraz porównano specyfikę proceduralnego podejścia do semantyki z filozoficzno- -metodologiczną charakterystyką modeli ekonomicznych. Konkretną wersją semantyki proceduralnej, która jest wykorzystana do szczegółowych analiz, jest semantyka procedur operacyjnych Jana Żytkowa. W świetle tej teorii zrekonstruowano wybrany model ekonomiczny - model transakcyjnego obiegu pieniądza (Cash Loop Model) Irvinga Fishera. Wskazano także na dalsze kierunki badań w zakresie proceduralnej eksplikacji semantyki modeli ekonomicznych, które uwzględniają specyfikę metodologiczną nauk ekonomicznych.(abstrakt oryginalny)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Philosophy of economics; Economic models; Economic methodology

PL

Filozofia ekonomii; Modele ekonomiczne; Metodologia ekonomii

• Czasopismo: Studia Ekonomiczne / Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Nauk Ekonomicznych
• Rocznik: 2018
• Numer: nr 1-2 (96-97)
• Strony: 9--40

Twórcy

autor

Jarosław Boruszewski

• Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

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