On the Poverty of Economics: The Pygmalion Syndrome

Myrdal Gunnar , The Political Element in the Development of Economic Theory. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1955.

An excellent recent treatment of the “value” question can be found in Robert L. Heilbroner, “Economics as a Value-Free Science”, Social Science, Spring 1973, pp. 129–43. Excerpted in Heilbroner Ford , eds., Economic Relevance, A Second Look, 80–89.