IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-1-349-12371-1_15.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

A Necessary Normative Context of Positive Economics?

In: Essays on the Methodology and Discourse of Economics

Author

Listed:
  • Warren J. Samuels

    (Michigan State University)

Abstract

Richard McKenzie has informed me that his article was ‘originally stimulated’ by my article on economics as a science and its relation to policy.’ There I suggested that great diversity seems to exist regarding the meaning of economics as a science, the proper social role of economists, the authoritativeness and confidence with which an economist can speak to policy issues (such as free trade), and both the respective meanings of and relationships between positive and normative economics. Using the concepts of Pareto optimality and maximization of the value of output, I attempted to indicate the various senses in which widely found lines of policyrelated reasoning were positive and/or normative. Whatever one thinks of the line(s) of filiation between McKenzie’s and my articles, the issues are, of course, longstanding.

Suggested Citation

  • Warren J. Samuels, 1992. "A Necessary Normative Context of Positive Economics?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Essays on the Methodology and Discourse of Economics, chapter 14, pages 266-271, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-12371-1_15
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-12371-1_15
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Other versions of this item:

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-12371-1_15. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.