Abstract: This paper examines Mark Blaug's position on the normative character of Paretian welfare economics: in general, and specifically with respect to his debate with Pieter Hennipman over this question during the 1990s. The paper also clarifies some of the confusions that emerged within the context of this debate, and closes by providing some additional arguments supporting Blaug's position that he himself did not provide
This paper responds to six contributions to a symposium on my 2018 book, The Community of Advantage....
A considerable part of research in economics deals with issues of a normativecharacter. Economists a...
This chapter examines economists’ indefensible attachment to the positive-normative distinction, and...
Abstract: This paper examines Mark Blaug's position on the normative character of Paretian welfare e...
The contributions of economists have long included both positive explanations of how economic system...
The paper offers a wide-angle view of ethics and welfare through the lens of ‘moral economy’. It exa...
This paper examines behavioral economics’ use of the positive-normative distinction in its critique ...
This paper explains how the ideas in my book The Community of Advantage fit into the broad landscape...
This working paper is a lightly edited version of two chapters of a book that I am currently writing...
In a series of articles and a book, Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell (KS) articulated and defended th...
I discuss three families of methodologies that could be used to assign values to the normative param...
Critics of economics often highlight two related issues: the empirical falsity of the ‘homo economic...
This paper argues that welfare economics should be restored to a prominent place on the agenda of ec...
In this paper I explain the context and significance of Joseph Cropsey "What is Welfare Economics?" ...
This paper responds to six contributions to a symposium on my 2018 book, The Community of Advantage....
A considerable part of research in economics deals with issues of a normativecharacter. Economists a...
This chapter examines economists’ indefensible attachment to the positive-normative distinction, and...
Abstract: This paper examines Mark Blaug's position on the normative character of Paretian welfare e...
The contributions of economists have long included both positive explanations of how economic system...
The paper offers a wide-angle view of ethics and welfare through the lens of ‘moral economy’. It exa...
This paper examines behavioral economics’ use of the positive-normative distinction in its critique ...
This paper explains how the ideas in my book The Community of Advantage fit into the broad landscape...
This working paper is a lightly edited version of two chapters of a book that I am currently writing...
In a series of articles and a book, Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell (KS) articulated and defended th...
I discuss three families of methodologies that could be used to assign values to the normative param...
Critics of economics often highlight two related issues: the empirical falsity of the ‘homo economic...
This paper argues that welfare economics should be restored to a prominent place on the agenda of ec...
In this paper I explain the context and significance of Joseph Cropsey "What is Welfare Economics?" ...
This paper responds to six contributions to a symposium on my 2018 book, The Community of Advantage....
A considerable part of research in economics deals with issues of a normativecharacter. Economists a...
This chapter examines economists’ indefensible attachment to the positive-normative distinction, and...