Ethics in Social Science Research: Reflections from a Student of Economics

Padmini Swaminathan

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Abstract: If poverty and nutrition are issues also of social justice and the commitment that a democratic state makes to its citizens (namely, ridding the country of hunger and malnutrition and also of ensuring food security) then the discipline of economics needs to pose its problem differently. The association of certain concepts with certain kinds of values and endowments creates dilemmas for the way we pose our research questions, and much more for the way in which such research is funded and/or prioritized over other research questions.

Keywords: ethics; poverty; nutrition; social justice; values; research questions; democracy; welfare state; food security; Ecoomics; sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-07
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