
Albert O. Hirschman
et al.
Published online:
19 October 2017
Published in print:
13 October 2013
Online ISBN:
9781400848409
Print ISBN:
9780691159904
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Chapter
Morality and the Social Sciences: A Durable Tension
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Pages
331–344
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Published:October 2013
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Hirschman, Albert O., 'Morality and the Social Sciences: A Durable Tension', in Jeremy Adelman (ed.), The Essential Hirschman (Princeton, NJ , 2013; online edn, Princeton Scholarship Online, 19 Oct. 2017), https://doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691159904.003.0015, accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
This chapter attempts to identify the tension between morality and the social sciences and recognize its inescapable centrality—and in that way have social scientists think more openly about their commitments. It turns to questions on the role of moral considerations and concerns in economics, and, more generally, to what can be said about the “problem of morality in the social sciences.” This chapter suggests some ways of reconciling the traditional posture of the economist as a “detached scientist” with their role as a morally concerned person, and shows why there is a contemporary increase of concern with moral values, even within the field of economics.
Keywords:
morality, social sciences, moral values, moral considerations, detached scientist, economics
Subject
Social Theory
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