The Positive and the Normative in Economic Thought

ISBN-13: 9781032161532 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 304 str.

Agnès Grivaux; Sina Badiei

Opis

The book responds to the need for greater clarity regarding the relationship between descriptive, evaluative and prescriptive approaches within positive and normative economics.

Recenzje

"Debate about the relationship between positive and normative economics has been ongoing since the origin of the discipline. This volume offers an impressive collection of historical and philosophical research on this relationship. The chapters are wide-ranging, original, and well-researched. It is a significant contribution to the literature."

D. Wade Hands, University of Puget Sound.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. The Positive and the Normative in Economic Thought: A Historical-Analytic Appraisal  Section I. The Positive and the Normative in the History of Economic Thought  Chapter 2. The Positive-Normative Distinction in the Classical Economic Methodology  Chapter 3. Descriptions, Prescriptions and Norms: The Tripartite Classification of Economics by John Neville Keynes  Chapter 4. Normative Economics and its Enemies: Marx, Mises and Friedman  Section II. The Positive and the Normative in Contemporary Economic Thought   Chapter 5. Economics as a Normative Discipline: Value Disentanglement in an ‘Objective’ Economics  Chapter 6. Realism and Deliberation in Normative Economics: The Fruitful Intellectual Dialogue between James Buchanan and John Rawls  Chapter 7. Normative Economics and Public Reason: Who Are the Addressees  Chapter 8. Reconciling Normative and Behavioural Economics: The Problem That Cannot Be Solved  Chapter 9. The Unacknowledged Normative Content of Randomised Control Trials in Economics and Its Dangers  Section III. The Positive and the Normative in Economics: Philosophical Perspectives  Chapter 10. The Positive, the Normative and the Marxian Heritage in the Early Frankfurt School  Chapter 11. Economics as Value-Laden Science: Lessons from the Philosophy of Science on the Normative/Positive Distinctions and Rational Choice Theory  Chapter 12. The Positive, the Normative and the Ontology of Social Problems