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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!malgudi.oar.net!uoft02.utoledo.edu!desire.wright.edu!demon
  2. Newsgroups: sci.econ
  3. Subject: Economic motivations...
  4. Message-ID: <1992Sep4.144834.3921@desire.wright.edu>
  5. From: demon@desire.wright.edu (Stupendous Man)
  6. Date: 4 Sep 92 14:48:34 EST
  7. References: <1992Sep1.094859.3841@desire.wright.edu> <52804@dime.cs.umass.edu> <23141@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> <52933@dime.cs.umass.edu>
  8. Organization: Demonic Possesions, Inc.
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  11. In article <52933@dime.cs.umass.edu>, yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) writes:
  12. ...
  13. > Honesty and clarity. Economics is deeply connected to morality, and it
  14.  
  15.     No, it is not.
  16.  
  17.     Economic justifications, however, frequently are.
  18.  
  19. > is either disingenuous of simply mistaken to claim that one's economic
  20. > program is based on scientific principles alone. Even if economics were
  21.  
  22.     Not if your program is merely to make the economy grow, and not to
  23. reward a certain sector.
  24.  
  25. > advanced far beyond its current fuzzy level, it would still not tell
  26. > us whether GDP measured wealth, what is involved in a "living standard",
  27. > or what the proper relationship between humans and the environment should 
  28. > be. Thus when anyone, be they Marxist or "free-marketist" claims that
  29. > his/her economic program is determined by scientific/economic principles
  30. > which are free of moral content, it is sensible to be very suspicious.
  31.  
  32.     It's sensible to be suspicious no matter what the underlying motivation
  33. may be.
  34.  
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