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  2. Positive and normative economics - Wikipedia

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    An example of a normative economic statement is as follows: The price of milk should be $6 a gallon to give dairy farmers a higher standard of living. This is a normative statement, because it reflects value judgments. This specific statement makes the judgment that farmers deserve a higher living standard and that family farms ought to be ...

  3. Fact–value distinction - Wikipedia

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    Statements of value (normative or prescriptive statements), which encompass ethics and aesthetics, and are studied via axiology. This barrier between fact and value, as construed in epistemology, implies it is impossible to derive ethical claims from factual arguments, or to defend the former using the latter.

  4. Normativity - Wikipedia

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    Normative statements of such a type make claims about how institutions should or ought to be designed, how to value them, which things are good or bad, and which actions are right or wrong. [8] Claims are usually contrasted with positive (i.e. descriptive, explanatory, or constative) claims when describing types of theories, beliefs, or ...

  5. Essays in Positive Economics - Wikipedia

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    The essay argues that economics as science should be free of normative judgments for it to be respected as objective and to inform normative economics (for example whether to raise the minimum wage). Normative judgments frequently involve implicit predictions about the consequences of different policies. The essay suggests that such differences ...

  6. Is–ought problem - Wikipedia

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    Hume's law or Hume's guillotine [1] is the thesis that an ethical or judgmental conclusion cannot be inferred from purely descriptive factual statements. [ 2 ] A similar view is defended by G. E. Moore 's open-question argument , intended to refute any identification of moral properties with natural properties , which is asserted by ethical ...

  7. Normative science - Wikipedia

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    In the applied sciences, normative science is a type of information that is developed, presented, or interpreted based on an assumed, usually unstated, preference for a particular outcome, policy or class of policies or outcomes. [1] Regular or traditional science does not presuppose a policy preference, but normative science, by definition ...

  8. Understanding eligible expenses for HRAs, QSEHRAs, and ICHRAs

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    The difference between ICHRAs and QSEHRAs is who they cover. While they offer similar coverage, QSEHRAs can only be offered by small businesses with fewer than 50 full-time employees. Companies of ...

  9. List of eponymous laws - Wikipedia

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    Hume's law, in meta-ethics: normative statements cannot be deduced exclusively from descriptive statements. Hume-Rothery rules, named after William Hume-Rothery, are a set of basic rules that describe the conditions under which an element could dissolve in a metal, forming a solid solution.