Is Scientific Knowledge Useful for Policy Analysis? A Peculiar Theorem Says: No
Conventional wisdom dictates that the more we know about a problem domain the easier it is to predict the effects of policies in that domain. Strangely, this wisdom is not sanctioned by formal analysis, when the notions of “knowledge” and “policy” are given concrete definitions in the context of non...
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| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2014-03-01
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| Series: | Journal of Causal Inference |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/jci-2014-0017 |