Abstract
AbstractThis paper in honor of Hans Albert ‘@100’ seeks to show how adhering to critical rationalist ‘economic philosophy’ avoids contradictions in James Buchanan’s contractarianism: restricting constitutional economic advice to what serves the ends of all potential addressees simultaneously Buchanan not only blurs the borderline between value-neutral economic philosophy and substantive moral philosophy but also contradicts his thesis of the “necessary relativism and individualism of values”. Translating ‘means-ends’-relations into technological ‘cause-effect’-relations, Albert can treat technological blueprints as nomological hypotheses subject to scientific test and corroboration while leaving their practical implementation to citizens whose contingent particular ends may or may not be universalistic.
Funder
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering,Environmental Engineering
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1. As far as references to Hans Albert’s work are concerned, we confined ourselves to the bare minimum here since the other articles in this volume Albert@100 of Homo oeconomicus represent Hans Albert’s work rather comprehensively and refer to it in detail. Buchanan is cited after the Liberty Fund collected works edition of 1999 in the format (year original publication/1999, vol. no, page)
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