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Taylor and Francis Ltd The Positive and the Normative in Economic Thought 1st Edition 2022 Hardbound by Badiei, Sina
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._x000D__x000D_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._x000D__x000D_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._x000D_ _x000D_
Chapter 1. The Positive and the Normative in Economic Thought: A Historical-Analytic Appraisal Section I. The Positive and the Normative in the History of Economic Thought Chapter 2. The Positive-Normative Distinction in the Classical Economic Methodology Chapter 3. Descriptions, Prescriptions and Norms: The Tripartite Classification of Economics by John Neville Keynes Chapter 4. Normative Economics and its Enemies: Marx, Mises and Friedman Section II. The Positive and the Normative in Contemporary Economic Thought Chapter 5. Economics as a Normative Discipline: Value Disentanglement in an 'Objective' Economics Chapter 6. Realism and Deliberation in Normative Economics: The Fruitful Intellectual Dialogue between James Buchanan and John Rawls Chapter 7. Normative Economics and Public Reason: Who Are the Addressees Chapter 8. Reconciling Normative and Behavioural Economics: The Problem That Cannot Be Solved Chapter 9. The Unacknowledged Normative Content of Randomised Control Trials in Economics and Its Dangers Section III. The Positive and the Normative in Economics: Philosophical PerspectivesChapter 10. The Positive, the Normative and the Marxian Heritage in the Early Frankfurt School Chapter 11. Economics as Value-Laden Science: Lessons from the Philosophy of Science on the Normative/Positive Distinctions and Rational Choice Theory Chapter 12. The Positive, the Normative and the Ontology of Social Problems_x000D_