The Positive-Normative Dichotomy and Economics

Hands, D. Wade

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“…Hence it can obviously generate a perceived threat to the scientific credit of macroeconomists or to the scientific legitimacy of macroeconomics. For the ideal of a value-free science is usually part of the historical narrative self-produced by most economists (see, e.g., Hands, 2012). Indeed, when questioned directly about this theme, Klamer's interviewee usually deny any political motivation in their contributions to economics (e.g., Sargent, p.80) or express the belief that a requirement for the scientific legitimacy of economics is that normative considerations about the economy ought not to influence theoretical and empirical propositions (though the other way around is acceptable) (e.g., Lucas, p.52).…”

Section: Economists and Their Academic Workmentioning

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Interviews: Some Methodological and Historiographical Issues of Oral Sources

Jullien

2018

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may AbstractThis chapter discusses the similarities and differences in the plurality of practices regarding the use of interviews by historians of economics -i.e., either the use of someone else's interviews as sources or the use of interviews conducted by the historian for her or his work. It draws on methodological and historiographical contributions from other disciplines where the use of interviews is more systematic to characterize the practices in our discipline and to sometimes suggest further or new developments.

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Section: Economists and Their Academic Workmentioning

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Interviews: Some Methodological and Historiographical Issues of Oral Sources

Jullien

2018

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“…Not only does the behavioral move in economic analysis purport to provide psychologically more plausible accounts of actual behavior, it aims to guide regulation and policy that help boundedly rational people to choose in their best interests (Camerer et al, 2003, Thaler and Sunstein, 2003, Thaler and Sunstein, 2009Sunstein, 2012). Very recently, behavioral economics has inspired the theory as well as the practice of development economics (Bertrand, Mullanaithan and Shafir, 2004;Mullanaithan, 2007;Hands 2012). There is already a vast literature shedding light on the prospects of using insights from behavioral economics in the fight against poverty (Banerjee and Duflo, 2012;Karlan and Appel, 2012;Mullanaithan and Shafir, 2013).…”

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The behavioral turn in development economics: a tentative account through the lens of economic methodology

Muramatsu

Avila

2017

Rev. Econ. Polit.

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A guinada comportamental na economia do desenvolvimento: uma análise preliminar pelas lentes da metodologia econômica roBerTa muramaTSu flavia avila* RESuMO: Este artigo busca oferecer uma interpretação sobre por que insights da economia comportamental foram incorporados à agenda de pesquisa sobre o desenvolvimento econômico inspirada pelas lentes da metodologia da economia. Embarca-se em uma revisão extensa da literatura que se concentra na prática efetiva "da análise comportamental do desenvolvimento econômico e visão da economia comportamental da pobreza". Tal agenda surgiu nos primeiros anos do século xxI para identificar e discutir algumas direções e implicações que esse movimento pode trazer para a ciência e arte da Economia.PAlAVRAS-CHAVE: Economia comportamental; desenvolvimento; experimentos de campo; metodologia; política.ABSTRACT: This paper aims to provide an interpretation of why behavioral economics has come into the complex field of development economics that draws on insights from methodology of economics. We engage in an extensive survey of the literature that focuses on the actual practice of "behavioral development economics and behavioral economics view of poverty" that emerged in the early years of the 21st century in order to identify and discuss some directions and implications that this movement might carry for economics science and art of Economics.

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“…possibility of excluding value from economic science. In this paper, I still use the dichotomy between the normative and the positive as a framework, because it is one to which most economists still subscribe Hands (2012). 5 This view is also apparented to the "behavioural welfare economics" of Bernheim and Rangel (2007).…”

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Approaches to Well-Being, Use of Psychology and Paternalism in Economics

Collewet

2014

Economics

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This paper discusses three approaches in economics which take a position on the definition of well-being and which use insights from psychology to support their positions: Scitovsky's Joyless Economy, happiness economics, and the constitutional approach to happiness in economics. The paper shows first that the definition of well-being by each approach, which is a normative step, is revealed by the choice of a psychological theory or method rather than resulting from the application of a theory or method. Secondly, this paper demonstrates that personal judgement by the authors is often needed in the positive realm, in order to interpret psychological results and to then translate them into practical recommendations. Both of these issues have implications for those theories that define well-being as something other than the fulfillment of individual preferences whatever their content, and which therefore yield a potential justification for paternalism. This paper argues that the potential paternalistic implications of these approaches are not based on positive science only, but rely on normative choice and personal judgement.

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The Positive-Normative Dichotomy and Economics

Cited by 41 publications

References 21 publications

Interviews: Some Methodological and Historiographical Issues of Oral Sources

Interviews: Some Methodological and Historiographical Issues of Oral Sources

The behavioral turn in development economics: a tentative account through the lens of economic methodology

Approaches to Well-Being, Use of Psychology and Paternalism in Economics

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