The Positive and the Normative in Economic Thought

Sina Badiei is Program Director in the Philosophy and Human Science Department at the Collège International de Philosophie (Paris) and a Fixed-Term Assistant Professor at the Walras-Pareto Centre of the University of Lausanne. Agnès Grivaux is Assistant Professor (tenured) in Contemporary German Philosophy at the University of Nantes and a member of the research centre CAPhi.

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