# Economics cannot isolate itself from political theory: a mathematical demonstration

## TL;DR

This paper mathematically demonstrates that economic policy statements inherently contain political statements, emphasizing the inseparability of economics from political theory and philosophy.

## Contribution

It provides a logico-mathematical proof that economic policy cannot be separated from political considerations, highlighting the necessity of integrating political theory into economic analysis.

## Key findings

- Economic policy statements inherently contain political statements
- Mathematical proof of inseparability between economics and politics
- Advocates for integrating political theory into economic policy development

## Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to provide a confession of sorts from an economist to political science and philosophy. A confession of the weaknesses of the political position of the economist. It is intended as a guide for political scientists and philosophers to the ostensible policy criteria of economics, and an illustration of an argument that demonstrates logico-mathematically, therefore incontrovertibly, that any policy statement by an economist contains, or is, a political statement. It develops an inescapable compulsion that the absolute primacy and priority of political theory and philosophy in the development of policy criteria must be recognised. Economic policy cannot be divorced from politics as a matter of mathematical fact, and rather, as Amartya Sen has done, it ought embrace political theory and philosophy.