Goodhart’s law and the gaming of UK public spending numbers
Goodhart’s Law, originally inspired by money-supply indicators, predicts high-consequence administrative numbers tend to be gamed out of meaningfulness. This paper argues that, in addition to the well-documented manipulation of aggregate input numbers at the top-levels of decision making and perform...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
2020
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