Karel Engliš´s contribution for economic science

Karel Engliš was the author of the teleological theory of national economy based on the idea that the cognition and understanding of all the economic processes may be satisfactory from the scientific point of view only if it follows the purposefulness , intentionality, the choice of aims and means and the rationality of making decisions and methods in the behaviour of all the economic subjects. He pointed out that the traditional tendencies in economic theory preferred the causal approach and that they concentrated on the search and research of the causal connections in economic reality and the they missed the knowledge of the sense of human doings. In the basis of these ideas he elaborated the economic science dealing with the systems in which all the economic activity takes place. In Engliš's approach the methodological influence of the Austrian school and the noetic-philosophical influence of Kant's critical idealisme are obvious.

Keywords: value, money, teleological economic theory, price, state economic policy, Engliš Karel