Ekonomia jako nauka pozytywna. Refleksje na marginesie „Ekonomii dobra i zła” Tomáša Sedláčka

• Authors: Joanna Dzionek-Kozłowska

Title variants

EN

Economics as a Positive Science. Reflections after Reading Thomáš Sedláček’s ‛Economics of Good and Evil’

Abstracts

EN

One of the fundamental methodological problems of economics as a separate science is the question whether economic theorists are able to restrict themselves to the description of facts without assessing them. Is it possible to create an economic theory utterly deprived of value judgements? In other words – is economics a positive science? This problem is still debatable, notwithstanding efforts to eradicate all value judgements from economic analysis and to treat it as a touchstone of the scientificity of economic reasoning. The main purpose of the article is to analyse Sedláček arguments and to confront his stance with other approaches. Furthermore, an attempt is made to assess whether his position could be attractive for contemporary mainstream economists.

Keywords

EN

economics; value judgements; positive science; Tomáš Sedláček

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Annales. Etyka w Życiu Gospodarczym
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 16
• Pages: 335-344

Dates

published

2013

Contributors

author

Joanna Dzionek-Kozłowska

• Uniwersytet Łódzki

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/1899-2226.16.24

Biblioteka Nauki

20311591