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      The Positive and the Normative in Economic Thought
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      The Positive and the Normative in Economic Thought

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      The Positive and the Normative in Economic Thought book

      Edited BySina Badiei, Agnès Grivaux
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2022
      eBook Published 16 June 2022
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003247289
      Pages 264
      eBook ISBN 9781003247289
      Subjects Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Humanities
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      Badiei, S., & Grivaux, A. (Eds.). (2022). The Positive and the Normative in Economic Thought (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003247289

      ABSTRACT

      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.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|24 pages

      The Positive and the Normative in Economic Thought

      A Historical-Analytic Appraisal
      BySina Badiei, Agnès Grivaux

      section Section I|60 pages

      The Positive and the Normative in the History of Economic Thought

      chapter 2|15 pages

      The Positive-Normative Distinction in the Classical Economic Methodology

      ByMichel S. Zouboulakis

      chapter 3|21 pages

      Descriptions, Prescriptions and Norms

      The Tripartite Classification of Economics by John Neville Keynes
      ByGilles Campagnolo

      chapter 4|22 pages

      Normative Economics and Its Enemies

      Marx, Mises and Friedman 1
      BySina Badiei

      part Section II|105 pages

      The Positive and the Normative in Contemporary Economic Thought

      chapter 5|21 pages

      Economics as a Normative Discipline

      Value Disentanglement in an 'Objective' Economics
      ByJohn B. Davis

      chapter 6|21 pages

      Realism and Deliberation in Normative Economics

      The Fruitful Intellectual Dialogue Between James Buchanan and John Rawls 1
      ByNathanaël Colin-Jaeger, Malte Dold, Alexandre Gascoin

      chapter 7|19 pages

      Normative Economics and Public Reason. Who Are the Addressees? 1

      ByCyril Hédoin

      chapter 8|19 pages

      Reconciling Normative and Behavioural Economics

      The Problem That Cannot Be Solved 1
      ByGuilhem Lecouteux

      chapter 9|23 pages

      The Unacknowledged Normative Content of Randomised Control Trials in Economics and Its Dangers 1

      BySeán Mfundza Muller

      part Section III|51 pages

      The Positive and the Normative in Economics

      chapter 10|21 pages

      The Positive, the Normative and the Marxian Heritage in the Early Frankfurt School 1

      ByAgnès Grivaux

      chapter 11|17 pages

      Economics as Value-Laden Science

      Lessons From the Philosophy of Science on the Normative/Positive Distinctions and Rational Choice Theory
      ByMagdalena Małecka

      chapter 12|11 pages

      The Positive, the Normative and the Ontology of Social Problems

      ByJesús Zamora-Bonilla
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