{"id":15278,"date":"2012-04-26T15:29:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T14:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=15278"},"modified":"2012-04-26T15:29:19","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T14:29:19","slug":"can-i-tell-the-difference-between-the-the-objective-and-the-subjective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/04\/26\/can-i-tell-the-difference-between-the-the-objective-and-the-subjective\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I tell the difference between the the objective and the subjective?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Booth of the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iea.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Institute of Economic Affairs <\/a>asked me the above question during debate at the event we were both speaking at this lunchtime at the Royal Society for Arts.<\/p>\n<p>I didn't have time to answer him then, so let me do so now.<\/p>\n<p>No of course I don't know the difference between the objective and the subjective. Indeed, I don't recognise that there is one on almost any issue of any significance, and absolutely certainly none at all in any question relating to economics.<\/p>\n<p>In economics the idea of objectivity is a myth created by pro-market economists to excuse the flaws in their assumptions which would otherwise prevent them reaching their highly subjective conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who claims to be an objective economist is, in my opinion, be definition not telling the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Booth of the Institute of Economic Affairs asked me the above question during debate at the event we were both speaking at this lunchtime<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/04\/26\/can-i-tell-the-difference-between-the-the-objective-and-the-subjective\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}