caa a22 4500 469034211 CHVBK 20180323132752.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19921201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01725238 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01725238 Hennipman P. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam aut The reasoning of a great methodologist: Mark Blaug on the nature of Paretian welfare economics [Elektronische Daten] [P. Hennipman] Summary: In various publications Blaug has upheld the view that Paretian welfare economics is normative, sharply criticising the opposite ‘Archibald-Hennipman argument.' He has failed to refute this and to defend his position, with the allegation that positive welfare economics cannot exist, convincingly. His reasoning is marred by misunderstandings, inconsistencies, circularities and traces of essentialism. The normative conception is an ambiguous hybrid that cannot fulfil the pretension to offer definite prescriptions. It is advisable to regard allocation theory as belonging to positive economics; its normative application must drop its claim to represent welfare economics as a whole. Stenfert Kroese Uitgevers, 1992 De Economist Kluwer Academic Publishers 140/4(1992-12-01), 413-445 0013-063X 140:4<413 1992 140 10645 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01725238 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01725238 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hennipman P. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- De Economist Kluwer Academic Publishers 140/4(1992-12-01), 413-445 0013-063X 140:4<413 1992 140 10645 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer