Just about the most difficult lesson for first-year economics students, and sometimes graduate students, is that economic theory, and for that matter any scientific theory, is positive or ...

Those were the thoughts of Houston Chronicle and Express-News columnist Chris Tomlinson in his commentary “Managing inflation, migration, disasters,” (SA Inc., Nov. 17.) While the second point is ...

Carbon accounting startup Normative recently raised $11.5 million in Series A funding. The firm helps businesses monitor their carbon footprint, and has been backed by Google. Insider got an exclusive ...

It should be fairly obvious that normative statements can be the conclusions of arguments, for we often try to convince people to accept conclusions of this sort. But can they also be the conclusions ...

Can there be a non-reductivist, source-based explanation of the use of normative language in statements describing the law and legal situations? This problem was formulated by Joseph Raz, who also ...