I could try to say that my work focuses only on understand how growth and development take place for example but this in practice this it doesn’t work that way.
A conversation with students, policy makers, even fellow economists will not go more than 5 − 10 mins without taking a normative tact. Virtually everyone is in favor of more growth and so the question is invariably, “what should we DO to achieve it”
Does the term ‘normative’ work in that context?
Yes,
I could try to say that my work focuses only on understand how growth and development take place for example but this in practice this it doesn’t work that way.
A conversation with students, policy makers, even fellow economists will not go more than 5 − 10 mins without taking a normative tact. Virtually everyone is in favor of more growth and so the question is invariably, “what should we DO to achieve it”