The positive-normative split is a vehicle for exporting disciplinary values

Evidence

When applied outside the context of disciplinary selfregulation within a university environment, the economist’s insistence on separating “positive” and “normative” analyses becomes tantamount to an effort to extend the profession’s preferred values into other spheres of life. Indeed, when one observes how sloppy the profession can be in handling its own purportedly settled distinction, one begins to wonder whether even ardent proponents believe that they are obtaining “correct mea sure ment of benefi ts and costs.” — Douglas A. Kysar, Regulating from Nowhere, 582

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Law becomes positive when norms are subjected to norms — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 250; Ethical persuasion frameworks smuggle in unexamined standards of what counts as good — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 411; Emotions, education, and health become surplus value through formal subsumption — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory: A Marxist…, 103 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Value-free scholarly inquiry presents the social status quo as natural rather than constructed #corroborates (0.90) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 731
• Law becomes positive when norms are subjected to norms #expands (0.85) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 250
• The term normative conflates two distinct kinds of evaluation. #expands (0.85) — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 502
• Ethical persuasion frameworks smuggle in unexamined standards of what counts as good #complicates (0.80) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 411
• A normative ‘should’ breaks with immediacy’s present toward collective flourishing #complicates (0.80) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 365
• Categories like health and normality are produced by disciplinary regimes #expands (0.80) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 710
• Emotions, education, and health become surplus value through formal subsumption #expands (0.75) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 103