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Making the Case for Equitable Growth: Comments on the 2020 David Gordon Memorial Lecture

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In this piece, I comment on Heather Boushey’s David Gordon Memorial Lecture at the 2020 Allied Social Science Association meetings in San Diego. I identify the theory of change presented in Boushey’s lecture and discuss it in the context of contemporary economic thought. I argue that Boushey’s theory of change makes an important normative intervention in economics science. I evaluate Boushey’s theory of change from the perspective of philosophy of science as well as drawing on historical evidence.

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  • Katherine A. Moos, 2020. "Making the Case for Equitable Growth: Comments on the 2020 David Gordon Memorial Lecture," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 52(4), pages 610-615, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:52:y:2020:i:4:p:610-615
    DOI: 10.1177/0486613420929815
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    Keywords

    equitable growth; theory in applied research; values in applied research;
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    JEL classification:

    • B50 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - General
    • H50 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - General
    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity

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