This distinguished book provides a critical assessment of the relationship between economic theory, scientific objectivity and ethics. The main purpose of economic science is to analyse and ‘explain’ the economic process but not necessarily to pass judgement as to whether this process is...

The project "Europe" has two aspects: a political and an economic one. While the political aspect - a peaceful Europe - can count on universal consent, the economic "constitution" necessarily invites controversies. In national politics such controversies are "solved" in a democratic process. The...