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The Positive and the Normative in Economic Thought: A Historical-Analytic Appraisal

open access: yes, 2022
This chapter introduces some of the main issues at stake in the distinction between the positive and the normative in economics. It first analyses the positive and the normative in the history of economic thought and shows that attempts at defining the ...
Badiei, Sina, Grivaux, Agnès
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Behavioural Law and Economics as Litmus Test

open access: yesŒconomia, 2017
This paper discusses a few meta-theoretical questions about Behavioural Law and Economics (BLE) in order to better understand both its popularity and the criticisms it has received.
Péter Cserne
doaj   +1 more source

Law and Economics, or Punctum Archimedis in Environmental Law

open access: yesსამართალი და მსოფლიო, 2021
This article examines the autonomous field of Law and Economics, indicates the importance of integrating the economical methodology in the process of comprehensively understanding the normative order and laments over the undesirable shortage of ...
Iviko Khavtasi
doaj   +1 more source

The Moral and Political Dimension of Economics The Fact-Value Dichotomy

open access: yesAnnales Etyka w Życiu Gospodarczym, 2016
Since the neoclassical school, the separation between facts and values, is and ought, positive and normative, has become a concern in conventional economic analyses.
Vasco Almeida
doaj   +1 more source

I Choose for Myself, Therefore I Am

open access: yesErasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 2021
Behavioral economics and existentialism both present informative perspectives on human choice. We argue in this article that the dialogue between the two approaches can enrich the current debate about the normative implications of behavioral economics ...
Malte Dold, Alexa Stanton
doaj   +1 more source

Ban Glyphosate—Does It Affect the Swedish Farmers' Willingness to Grow Cover Crops?

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The cultivation of cover crops is one of the new Eco‐scheme practices introduced in Sweden. This study examines how the design of policy attributes of these schemes influences farmers' willingness to grow cover crops on arable land, with particular focus on the potential impact of a glyphosate ban.
Vivian Wei Huang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Preferences versus Opportunities:On the Conceptual Foundations of Normative Welfare Economics

open access: yes, 2022
Normative welfare economics commonly assumes that individuals’ preferences can be reliably inferred from their choices and relies on preference satisfaction as the normative standard for welfare.
Fumagalli, Roberto
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Interdiciplinary Method in Islamic Economics' Resaerch and Education [PDF]

open access: yesInterdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, 2011
In this paper we discuss about effective method of research and education of Islamic economics through inter-disciplinary procedure. Nowadays this procedure in advance methodology of education in economics has been concentrated as “Focused Interest Group”
Hosein Heshmatimolaei
doaj   +1 more source

Personal Norms — and Not Only Social Norms — Shape Economic Behavior [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
While social norms have received great attention within economics, little is known about the role of personal norms. We propose a simple utility framework — which assumes that people care about monetary payoff, social norms and personal norms — and design a novel two-part experiment to investigate the predictive value of personal norms across four ...
Bašić, Zvonimir, Verrina, Eugenio
openaire   +4 more sources

Assessing Household Welfare in Response to Rising Food Prices in The Gambia

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how rising food prices affected household welfare in The Gambia using nationally representative data from the 2015/16 Integrated Household Survey (IHS‐3). The analysis reflects household consumption behavior and market conditions prevailing during that period and provides a structural benchmark for understanding ...
Roger Vorsah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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