Economists like to think of themselves as practitioners of value-free scientific inquiry, yet their values inevitably intrude into their models and their tests. This inevitable intrusion does not mean that facts and values cannot be kept separate, but it does suggest that economists should make their moral commitments plainly visible to aid those evaluating their findings.
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Peter Lewin is a clinical professor of economics in the School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas.
