Markets and Morality
探讨经济学作为实证科学与规范学科的双重角色,并反驳市场会削弱道德的观点,对关注经济与道德关系的学者有参考价值。
The paper addresses two issues. First, economics has evolved both as a positive science and, from moral philosophy, also as a normative discipline. Advancing the public good requires that public policy walk on both these legs. Second, the criticism has been forcefully made that markets undermine morality. This contention is refuted in several ways.