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Foster’s development of the instrumental theory of value, an explanation of the criterion of judgment in all scientific social inquiry, is one of his most original and important, if not revolutionary, contributions. He is attempting
The determination of what outght to be is constant part of what is.
J. Fagg Foster
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Tool, M.R. (2000). The Instrumental Theory of Value. In: Value Theory and Economic Progress: The Institutional Economics of J. Fagg Foster. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3998-4_4
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