Efficiency is treated as uncontestable truth rather than a contestable value
Evidence
The values of efficiency and economy, the fundamental(ist) foundations of rational choice reason, assume the status of empirically established truth the force of which is unquestionable and so incontestable. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 121
Categorization
- XREF: Builds toward the reader’s interest in how cost-benefit framing forecloses normative debate — echoes the diamond-trade efficiency arguments elsewhere. — connects to: Production budgets signal value independent of any real meaning in products; Prevailing rationality represses all values it cannot operationally validate. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 6; Technical performativity now shapes what counts as scientific truth. — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 344 (+9 more)