Balalaev Sergey A.

This article addresses the issue of modeling entrepreneurial activity. A constructivist approach to studying the phenomenon of entrepreneurship is proposed, and the features of the constructivist methodology, which is rooted in the English empiricism of Berkeley and Hume, German classical philosophy of Kant, American pragmatism of W. James, and 20th-century analytical philosophy, are described. In constructivism, knowledge is viewed as an activity-based process in which individuals actively construct their surrounding world in their consciousness. Knowledge represents a holistic and systemic construct that fundamentally cannot claim to be true but can only be sufficiently relevant to the environment and the tasks facing the cognizing subject. The application of elements of constructivism in various fields of economic theory is analyzed. Five main theses of the constructivist approach to modeling entrepreneurial activity are formulated.