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What has Operations Research to do with ethics? Or, more generally, what has science to do with ethics? Should not science be free or at least intellectually be separable from moral norms as Max Weber [Weber] postulated? Indeed, being aware that Operations Research (OR) may be identified as the science of formal decision making, these questions are of particular significance for this discipline. Formal decision making has, in a very general way, to do with norms, and these norms are not simply exogenously given but essential objects of investigation.
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Schneeweiss, C. (1999). Ethics and Operations Research. In: Leopold-Wildburger, U., Feichtinger, G., Kistner, KP. (eds) Modelling and Decisions in Economics. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-12519-9_2
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