For a few decades, the debate about the dominant economic theory has focused on the epistemological problems caused by the use of objective categories or “intellectual abstractions,” which involved “oblivion,” or disconnection of social actors understood as concrete persons. In Husserlian terms, this genuine “crisis of the sciences” meant the loss of the life-world as the substratum and foundation of all scientific knowledge. In the context of these discussions, the phenomenological sociology of Alfred Schutz has much to say on the issue. Our article will assert that the postulate of adequacy and its inseparable pair, the postulate of subjective interpretation, have important methodological implications for economic research.

几十年来，关于主流经济理论的争论一直集中在由于使用客观类别或“智力抽象”而引起的认识论问题，其中涉及“遗忘”，或与被理解为具体人的社会行动者脱节。用胡塞尔的术语来说，这种真正的“科学危机”意味着作为所有科学知识的基础和基础的生活世界的丧失。在这些讨论的背景下，阿尔弗雷德·舒茨的现象学社会学对这个问题有很多话要说。我们的文章将断言，充分性假设及其不可分割的一对，即主观解释假设，对经济研究具有重要的方法论意义。