  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.
