Moral Problem Quotes

“The moral problem is a conflict that can never be settled. Social life
will always present mankind with a choice of evils. No metaphysical
solution that can ever be formulated will seem satisfactory for long.

The solutions offered by economists were no less delusory than those of
the theologians that they displaced.

All the same we must not abandon the hope that economics can make an
advance towards science, or the faith that enlightenment is not useless.
It is necessary to clear the decaying remnants of obsolete metaphysics
out of the way before we can go forward. The first essential for
economists, arguing amongst themselves, is to “try very seriously,” as
Professor Popper says that natural scientists do, “to avoid talking at
cross purposes” and, addressing the world, reading their own doctrines
aright, to combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values
which can be measured in terms of money are the only ones that ought to
count. [pp. 134-5]”
― Joan Robinson, Economic Philosophy