ABSTRACT
It has been argued throughout this book that economics is science in some sense, but that it is also ideology. Gunnar Myrdal is among those who have tried to remind his economist colleagues of the impossibility of a value-neutral economics – or any other social science. ‘Values are always with us’. There is no view except from a particular viewpoint and whatever the viewpoint chosen, certain values are implied. This ideological aspect of economics is seldom taken seriously by economists. Many of them are apparently too concerned with their expert positions to openly declare or discuss their ideological viewpoints.
