The book responds to the need for greater clarity regarding the relationship between descriptive, evaluative and prescriptive approaches within positive and normative economics. It also analyses the entanglement between evaluative and prescriptive perspectives within several theoretical frameworks in normative economics such as social choice theory, the capability approach, behavioural welfare economics and various theories of justice.
It provides a forum for discussion between various schools of economic thought and several theoretical frameworks on the relationship between the study of facts, norms and values, with particular emphasis on classical political economy, the Marxian school of economics, the Frankfurt School, the Austrian school, the Chicago school, rational choice theory, expected utility theory, behavioural economics, experimental economics, development economics, welfare economics, public economics, constitutional political economy, the capability approach and politico-economic theories of justice.
Given the scope of questions treated in this book, it will be of interest to economists, historians of economic thought, political philosophers and philosophers of science, especially those interested in the philosophy and epistemology of economics.
Edited by:
Sina Badiei,
Agnès Grivaux
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032161563
ISBN 10: 1032161566
Series: Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology
Pages: 252
Publication Date: 29 January 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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 PerspectivesChapter 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
Sina Badiei is Program Director in the Philosophy and Human Science Department at the Collège International de Philosophie (Paris) and a Fixed-Term Assistant Professor at the Walras-Pareto Centre of the University of Lausanne. Agnès Grivaux is Assistant Professor (tenured) in Contemporary German Philosophy at the University of Nantes and a member of the research centre CAPhi.
Reviews for The Positive and the Normative in Economic Thought
"""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. ""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"
