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Science Policy, Ethics, and Economic Methodology - Some Problems of Technology Assessment and Environmental-Impact Analysis (Hardcover, 1985 ed.)
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Science Policy, Ethics, and Economic Methodology - Some Problems of Technology Assessment and Environmental-Impact Analysis (Hardcover, 1985 ed.)
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If indeed scientists and technologists, especially economists, set
much of the agenda by which the future is played out, and I think
they do, then the student of scientific methodology and public
ethics has at least three options. He can embrace certain
scientific methods and the value they hold for social
decisionmaking, much as Milton Friedman has accepted neoclassical
econom ics. Or, he can condemn them, regardless of their value,
much as Stuart Hampshire has rejected risk-cost-benefit analysis
(RCBA). Finally, he can critically assess these scientific methods
and attempt to provide solutions to the problems he has uncovered.
As a philosopher of science seeking the middle path between
uncritical acceptance and extremist rejection of the economic
methods used in policy analysis, I have tried to avoid the charge
of being "anti science." Fred Hapgood, in response to my
presentation at a recent Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of
Science, said that my arguments "felt like" a call for rejection of
the methods of risk-cost-benefit analysis. Not so, as Chapter Two
of this volume should make eminently clear. All my criticisms are
construc tive ones, and the flaws in economic methodology which I
address are uncovered for the purpose of suggesting means of making
good techniques better. Likewise, although I criticize the economic
methodology by which many technology assessments (TA's) and
environmental-impact analyses (EIA's) have been used to justify
public projects, it is wrong to conclude that I am
anti-technology."
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