Van Bouwel, Jeroen (2023) “That’s Your Bloody GDP, Not Ours.” On Citizen Engagement, Values, and the Case for Citizen Economics. [Preprint]
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Given that values influence the scientific process, including when doing economics, we should be asking under what conditions this influence is justifiable. In this paper, I argue that citizen engagement could be the best way to scrutinize and justify value influences in economics. To do so, I analyze a number of citizen engagement initiatives in economics and discuss how they contribute to value scrutiny. Next, I look at the rationales that have been formulated for such a citizen economics, like, e.g., increasing economic literacy, democratization, and, strengthening the legitimacy of economics, and I evaluate their benefits for the scrutiny of values. Overall, the paper concludes that citizen engagement is a promising way to address value judgments in economics and to make economics epistemically more robust even though there are still some challenges to be addressed for it to become part of a broadened economic methodology.
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| Keywords: | citizen engagement, citizen economics, science and values, social epistemology, value judgments in economics Top of page OUTLINE | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Economics General Issues > Social Epistemology of Science General Issues > Values In Science |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Jeroen Van Bouwel | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 28 Jun 2023 13:34 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 28 Jun 2023 13:34 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 22257 | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | https://doi.org/10.4000/oeconomia.14555 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Economics General Issues > Social Epistemology of Science General Issues > Values In Science |
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| Date: | 2023 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/22257 |
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