THE PROBLEM OF TRUTH IN ECONOMICS AND MATHEMATICS

Many economists – scientists, academics and experts in economic policy – express a concern about the fact that today mathematical methods play the increasing role in the study of the complicated economic reality. Mathematics is a highly abstract science, and economics deals with changeable reality, policy, living people and social processes. So, there is the question, whether mathematical abstractness turns economics into the area of a peculiar intellectual game, away from reality? To answer this question, we need to research the concept of truth in economic science and mathematics.In the modern science, the concept of truth is the one of the most ambiguous issues. Philosophical understanding of this concept has a long history, connected with clarification of the essence of such categories as scientific rationality and its types, scientific status of the studied discipline, the essence of the notion of truth in different types of science.Philosophical and methodological examination of the concept of truth in economics and mathematics allows to understand that the complexity of each science has it`s specifics. Understanding of truth in economics and mathematics depends on understanding of the subject, philosophical and methodological bases of each science, and it is also connected with the question of realness of economic models and mathematical objects