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标题：Review of Hilary Putnam and Vivian Walsh’s The end of value-free economics
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作者：Daniel Little
期刊名称：Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics (EJPE)
印刷版ISSN：1876-9098
出版年度：2012
卷号：5
期号：1
页码：87-92
出版社：Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics
摘要：This recent volume edited by Vivian Walsh and Hilary Putnam, collating contributions to a debate in the pages of the Review of Political Economy between 2000 and 2009, brings to a fine point a line of argument that has been brewing for fifteen years: is the logical positivist insistence on separating "fact-based" science from "value-based" ethics any longer tenable. Most particularly, are there now compelling reasons for declaring that mainstream economics needs to recognize that the distinction is wholly untenable. Is the zeal for insisting on "positive" economics now unsupportable. Should economists at last recognize that Lionel Robbins's strong exclusion of normative language from the science of economics (1932) was both unjustified and unwise. Walsh and Putnam argue that the answer to each of these questions is definitive: the strict dichotomy between fact and value in economics can no longer be supported