Sahab Khodamoradi, Mortaza, Momeni, Farshad, Naseri, Alireza (2015). Functionalist Economics: A Deweyan Approach. , 22(3), 53-97.
Mortaza Sahab Khodamoradi; Farshad Momeni; Alireza Naseri. "Functionalist Economics: A Deweyan Approach". , 22, 3, 2015, 53-97.
Sahab Khodamoradi, Mortaza, Momeni, Farshad, Naseri, Alireza (2015). 'Functionalist Economics: A Deweyan Approach', , 22(3), pp. 53-97.
Sahab Khodamoradi, Mortaza, Momeni, Farshad, Naseri, Alireza Functionalist Economics: A Deweyan Approach. , 2015; 22(3): 53-97.

Functionalist Economics: A Deweyan Approach

The International Journal of Humanities
Article 7, Volume 22, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 53-97    PDF (275.21 K)
Authors
Mortaza Sahab Khodamoradi* 1; Farshad Momeni2; Alireza Naseri3
1Rāzī University, Kermānshāh,
2Assistant Professor ʿAllāme Tabātabāʾi University, Tehran
3Tarbeyat Modarres University, Tehran
Abstract
In this study, we have tried to identify two different approaches for dealing with social problems and issues. The first one is causal explanation, which is retrospective, static and physical. The other one, functional analysis, is prospective, dynamic, and normative. Institutions are the main subject of economics. Human social-institutional reality has a common underlying structure and these structures are matters of status functions. We proposed a method which aims at efficacy of these functions using intelligence rather than assuming these functions as intrinsic and trying to grasp the realty from without by a rationality apparatus. The aim of this article is to show that, Dewey’s Logic provides us with this alternative functionalistic approach in a comprehensive way.

Keywords
John Dewey; Functional Analysis; Causal Explanation; Intelligence; Methodology
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