Projecting the evolutionary transformation of idealism on the basic methodological approaches to evaluating the economic efficiency of projects

Abstract

The article studies theoretical and methodological approaches of subjective and objective idealism, General scientific subjective and consumer methodological approaches, analyzes the scientific positions of economic schools of mercantilism and marginalism, considers the views of the economic school of physiocrats, the ideology of objective rationalism of classical political economy. In the course of theoretical research, the process, tendency and regularity of transformation of the main principles of subjective and objective idealism into the basic characteristics of consumer and system methodological approaches, which are the basis for evaluating the economic efficiency of investment projects, are established.

Methodology for Analysing and Evaluating the Effectiveness of Investment Projects: from Idealism to Consumer and System Approaches

“…Thus, the methodological consumer approach based on the subjective approach, which in turn is based on subjective idealism, is certainly applicable to the evaluation of the effectiveness of investment projects as a theory of choice according to the criterion of utility (efficiency) for an individual subject (participant in the investment project), but with the observance of the principle of moderation in all elements of the system of social production [6].…”