Экономическая наука: вызов фрагментации

Журнал Новой экономической ассоциации. 2024. № 2. С. 193–210.

Ananyin O. I.

Segmentation of economic knowledge tends to transform into its

fragmentation and becomes an obstacle for the development of science: it bounds its innovative

potential, weakens the connection with practice, and reduces the public authority of economic

theory. Hopes for overcoming this trend are often associated with the generality of analytical

tools in most social sciences. The paper substantiates the position that the problem of knowledge

fragmentation is primarily a problem of barriers between subject areas, while instrumental

integration can only facilitate such interactions, but cannot serve a response to the challenge

of fragmentation. An alternative strategy is analyzed, it implies an increase in the complexity

of knowledge structure, primarily through the development of partial ontologies and .grand

theories., providing prerequisites for effective interdisciplinary interactions in the social

sciences and intra- disciplinary contacts between the schools within economic science based on

different basic ontologies. Specifi c measures to improve economic education programs aimed

at training economists open to interdisciplinary contacts and capable of cooperative work in

interdisciplinary teams are proposed.

Keywords: interdisciplinarity, высшее экономическое образование, междисциплинарность, higher economic education, фрагментация знания, teaching economics, economic ontologies, differentiation and integration of sciences, knowledge fragmentation;, дифференциация и интеграция наук, преподавание экономической теории