No science of any kind can be divorced from ethical considerations... Science is a human learning process which arises in certain subcultures in human society and not in others, and a subculture as we seen is a group of people defined by acceptance of certain common values, that is, an ethic which permits extensive communication between them.

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

The concept of a value-free science is absurd.

DNA has been aptly described as the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.

Every culture, or subculture, is defined by a set of common values, that is, generally agreed upon preferences. Without a core of common values a culture cannot exist, and we classify society into cultures and subcultures precisely because it is possible to identify groups who have common values.

Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.

Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?