Methodological and Cognitive Status of Economic Law Analysis

Abstract

The article identifies and conceptualizes the methodological and cognitive status of economic law analysis in the context of the collision of economic and law paradigms, differences in the character and nature of these sciences, applied approaches and research methods. In particular, the etiology of economic law analysis and the ontological structure of understanding of economics, law and ELA were discussed. The idea of pluralism and methodological eclecticism was also presented in a situation that called for the integration of approaches: naturalistic, functionalistic and interpretive, situated on different aspects of the methodological dispute in social sciences. The discourse undertaken in the article serves the construction of a hybrid quantitative and qualitative research model, which may be a useful tool for extending the method of research in the economic law analysis. It may also be a catalyst for the internalisation of the “methodological awareness” of researchers in the application of an interdisciplinary approach in social sciences.