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Normative and Descriptive Theories

Normative and descriptive philosophies are two different philosophies having different context. Normative theory provides moral values and states how the world should be like and how it should be run. Whereas, descriptive theory provides more factual information and states what is happening, and how things are run in the real world. All social sciences have advanced in both descriptive and normative theories (Swanson, 2007).

Taking the example of economics, if we see through the descriptive perspective, it explains how the economy of the world is run (Velasquez, 2007). For example, how the simple supply and demand rule ...