Via Mark Thoma, Dan Little writes about a new volume from Vivian Walsh and Hilary Putnam titled The End of Value-Free Economics. That is all, I think, true and important. But it’s also important to ...

Economics is a field that exists between scientific objectivity and subjective interpretation. Suppose a policymaker is trying to decide whether a proposed new tax is a good idea. One economist might ...

Introductory textbooks teach a simple normative story about the importance of maximizing economic surplus that supports common policy claims. There is little defense of the claim that maximizing ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper analyzes what it means for philosophy of science to be normative. It argues that normativity is a multifaceted phenomenon rather ...