Facts, Values and Objectivity in Economics.

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Is Economics an 'objective' or 'positive' science, independent of ethical and political positions? The financial crisis that began in 2007 gave rise to renewed doubts regarding the 'objectivity' of economics and brought into the public arena a debate that was previously...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Caldas, Jose Castro
Otros Autores: Neves, Vitor
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2012.
Colección:Routledge frontiers of political economy.
Temas:
Economics > Moral and ethical aspects.
Economics.
Political ethics.
Économie politique > Aspect moral.
Économie politique.
Morale politique.
economics.
Economics
Economics > Moral and ethical aspects
Political ethics
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Is Economics an 'objective' or 'positive' science, independent of ethical and political positions? The financial crisis that began in 2007 gave rise to renewed doubts regarding the 'objectivity' of economics and brought into the public arena a debate that was previously confined to academia. A remarkable feature of the public debate on the value neutrality of economics since then was that it not only involved indictments of ideological biases in economic theory, but also the attribution of the crisis itself to the unethical orientation of economic agents, of economists acting as experts and of.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (208 pages)
ISBN:9780203121658
0203121651

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