@article{1439946,
      recid = {1439946},
      author = {Subramanian, S.},
      title = {Social values and social indicators : essays in normative  economics and measurement /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      abstract = {The book is a collection of essays written since 2010, and  dealing, in one way or another, with the place of values in  economic analysis. The centrality of values in the  collection is not surprising, given that the thematic  concerns informing the essays in the book relate  principally to methodological issues in economic enquiry,  to the normatively constrained aggregation of personal  preferences into collective choice, and to problems of  logical coherence and ethical appeal in the axiom systems  underlying the measurement of economic and social phenomena  such as poverty, inequality and literacy. While many of the  essays are more or less technical in nature, they are all  explicitly motivated by considerations that go beyond the  formalisms of presentation to an involvement with the role  of moral reasoning in economic analysis. In particular, the  essays emphasize the importance of "ought propositions" in  a science which is all too often regarded as being wholly  and exclusively "positive" in its orientation. The book  should be of particular interest to researchers, students,  and public policy makers.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1439946},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0428-7},
}