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Normative economics deals entirely in subjective opinions

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Whenever someone says 'we should' do something, they’ve left the realm of hard science. Normative economics focuses on ideological value judgments about what the economy ought to look like. It is entirely unprovable, heavily debated, and relies entirely on personal ethics rather than testable mathematical realities.

Normative economics deals entirely in subjective opinions
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