ABSTRACT
I share many of Brennan’s concerns, and agree with many of the points he makes in his elegant and beautifully crafted chapter on the struggle by economists to create a value-free economics. I hope that the clarity of thought, the eloquence with which the chapter is written, and the fact that it moves within the familiar terrain of the choice-theoretic approach, will provoke sympathy for his concerns among mainstream economists. However, despite the degree of agreement with many observations and my view that the taxonomy and the map he draws are useful, I prefer to offer a significantly different perspective.
