Conclusion
There is an enormous amount of activity at the frontiers between economics and philosophy concerned with methodology, rationality, ethics, and normative social and political philosophy.
This work is diverse and addresses very different questions. Although many of these are related, philosophy of economics is not a single unified enterprise. It is a collection of separate inquiries linked to one another by connections among the questions and by the dominating influence of mainstream economic models and techniques. The methodological - that is, epistemological and ontological - questions surveyed here should be seen in the context of the wider range of relations between economics and philosophy.Since economics has the subject matter of the social sciences and much of the structure of the natural sciences, it is a terrific object of inquiry for those interested in the relationship between the natural and social sciences. Furthermore, since its validity is contested, it provides an excellent case study for those concerned about the validity and reliability of methods that have apparently worked so well in the natural sciences. It is an unsettled area with more questions than answers. But could a philosopher ask for anything more enticing?
Source:
Allhoff F.. Philosophies of the Sciences: A Guide. N.-Y.: Wiley-Blackwell,2010. — 386 p.. 2010
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