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Working out what makes people do what they do in the realm of politics is fundamental to working out how to make it in their interest to do better things.
The Dictator's Handbook
de Mesquita Bueno
There is an interesting dilemma here for academic research – if the standards of evidence are too high, then little may be learnt, but if they are too low, what we learn (or think we learn) may not be reliable. The world of policy-making and public action, however, is different from that of academic research. In that universe, we have good reason to make constructive use of experience. Indeed, without it, we would be deprived of rich sources of insight and forced to take decisions based on very limited knowledge.
Sense and Solidarity
Jean Drèze
Propaganda #1: “poor people are poor because they don’t work enough and rich people are rich because they work hard”
How People Are Fooled To...
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