woensdag 1 september 2010

When Value Judgments Masquerade as Science

The economist’s concept of efficiency, as I’ve discussed previously, is quite distinct from the meaning associated with it among non-economists.
Most people think of the term in the context of production of goods and services: more efficient means more valuable output is wrung from a given bundle of real resources (which is good) or that fewer real resources are burned up to produce a given output (which is also good).

Read this opinion article from U.E. Reinhardt in The New York Times here.

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