Basic Considerations

Economic Transformation is to be understood as a design taskEconomic transformationas a design task on a global scale. Economic activity should be guided in the sense of defined goals. Economics is assigned to the social sciencesEconomysocial sciences: Human behavior plays a crucial role in economic contexts. Among other reasons, this is why there are limits to explaining or predicting economic phenomena with mathematical models—as can be seen, for example, in connection with economic crisesEconomic crises, predictability. Nevertheless, mathematics and statisticsStatistics, benefit for the economic sciences should of course be used to analyze the economy as far as they are beneficial and do not abstract too far from reality.