ABSTRACT
Whereas the praxis and social contract conceptions of justice leave little room for a prescriptive economics, the political economists, Fichte, Rawls, and Marx undermine their own efforts to treat the economy as an ethical concern by relying upon natural and monological paradigms of economic activity. The lesson their examples together provide is not that a normative economic science is unthinkable, but that a dual revolution in thought must be carried through before the just economy can be conceived. Somehow the theory of justice must be reconstructed to make place for an ethical economy and economic theory must be purged of the natural and monological conceptions that condemn economics to ethical neutrality.
