ABSTRACT
The present chapter argues for a democratic organization of the scientific practice of macroeconomics (or macroeconomic policy analysis). It rejects Popper’s conception of a democratic organization of scientific practice because Popper envisages the critical method as the only path to scientific objectivity and because the critical method can be shown to be inapplicable to causal modeling in macroeconomics. The chapter criticizes Myrdal’s conception of a democratic organization of research in the social sciences because the democratic organization he proposes is not exclusive enough, and because for Myrdal, scientific objectivity in any of its traditional meanings is impossible in the social sciences. The chapter defends a macroeconomic variant of Kitcher’s conception of well-orderedness because it allows for the identification of clear-cut steps that macroeconomists need to take in order to approximate the ideal of scientific objectivity.
