The paper presents two distinc perspectives regarding the nature of explanation in science: the explanation based on the covering law model and the morfodynamic apprach, and tries to give the limits of their applicability. The first model offers a structure of the explanation based on logic...

This paper discusses some problems associated with the concept of Pareto efficiency: first of all, the difficulties of defining what is a Pareto improvement and a Pareto optimum in social sciences (and economics in particular), and secondly, the relation between Pareto efficiency and equity of...