In this article I try to answer the question whether achieving the ideal of value free economics is possible. To reach this aim I examine the connections of economics with value judgements. I analyse: 1. the role of the so-called methodological value judgements (e. g. choice of subject, research methods, and criteria of hypotheses selection); 2. emotional load of terminology used by economists and its consequences. 3. relations of value judgements with economic policy. 4. validity of other, less important, arguments for the inevitability of intrusion of value judgements into the economic analysis. As a result of my study I reach the conclusion that arguments for the unavoidable intrusion of value judgements into economic analysis either do not concern the essence of the discussion or are false.

Keywords: methodology of economics, positive economics, normative economics, value judgments in economics
JEL: B41

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