The Economist as Plumber

As economists increasingly help governments design new policies and regulations, they take on an added responsibility to engage with the details of policy making and, in doing so, to adopt the mindset of a plumber. Plumbers try to predict as well as possible what may work in the real world, mindful...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Duflo, Esther
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Published: American Economic Association 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/114020
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