Economics In The XXI Century

Marek Ratajczak
Université des Sciences Économiques et de Gestion de Poznań
La Chaire de Macroéconomie et des Études sur le Développement
marek.ratajczak[AT]ue.poznan.pl

 

Summary : The last crisis – which official beginning has been Lehman Brothers Bank’s collapse at September 2008 – started a new stage of discussion on economics. Discussion especially concerns economics as a science which try to develop theoretical fundaments off macroeconomic policy. Important part of discussion’s participants look economic crisis as crisis of economics too. Paper’s goal is to present necessary changes to make economics better as a science in sense of better explanation and better prediction. Paper’s first part is presentation of contemporary economics as the most exact science among inexact sciences.

Keywords : economic crisis, the crisis of the economics, methodology of economics.

JEL Classification : B29, B40.