The Positive and the Normative in Economic Thought

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Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Preface
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
	2 The Positive-Normative Distinction in the Classical
 Economic Methodology
	3 Descriptions, Prescriptions and Norms: The  Tripartite Classification of Economics by John Neville Keynes
	4 Normative Economics and Its Enemies: Marx, Mises and Friedman
SECTION II The Positive and the Normative in Contemporary Economic Thought
	5 Economics as a Normative Discipline: Value
 Disentanglement in an ‘Objective’ Economics
	6 Realism and Deliberation in Normative Economics:
 The Fruitful Intellectual Dialogue Between James
 Buchanan and John Rawls
	7 Normative Economics and Public Reason. Who Are  the Addressees?
	8 Reconciling Normative and Behavioural Economics:  The Problem That Cannot Be Solved
	9 The Unacknowledged Normative Content of Randomised Control Trials in Economics and Its Dangers
SECTION III The Positive and the Normative in Economics: Philosophical Perspectives
	10 The Positive, the Normative and the Marxian Heritage in the Early Frankfurt School
	11 Economics as Value-Laden Science: Lessons From the Philosophy of Science on the Normative/Positive  Distinctions and Rational Choice Theory
	12 The Positive, the Normative and the Ontology of  Social Problems
Index