The Pervasive Proposition, ‘What Is, Is and Ought to Be’: A Critique

Warren Samuels

Chapter 20 in Essays on the Methodology and Discourse of Economics, 1992, pp 315-329 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Alas! How dreary would be the world if there were ... only a belief that what is is probably Pareto optimal, and if it were not it would eventually be. (Leonard Silk)1

Keywords: Full Employment; Moral Duty; Classical Economic; Privileged Status; Naturalistic Fallacy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-12371-1_21

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