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Noun: normative economics
  1. A part of economics that expresses value or normative judgments about economic fairness or what the outcome of the economy or goals of public policy ought to be.
    "Normative economics, in contrast, becomes arbitrary and unmotivated unless it attributes largely self-interested preferences to people."

Type of: economic science, economics, political economy

Encyclopedia: Normative economics