Overview: Discusses through 14 chapters, varied topics such as Friedman’s methodology, Paretian liberalism, Arrow Paradox, Derek Parfit’s arguments, and social indicators, principally indicators of poverty and .The book is a collection of essays written since 2010, and dealing, in one way or another, with the place of values in economic analysis. The centrality of values in the collection is not surprising, given that the thematic concerns informing the essays in the book relate principally to methodological issues in economic enquiry, to the normatively constrained aggregation of personal pre
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