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  1. The economist as plumber
    Author: Duflo, Esther
    Published: January 23, 2017
    Publisher:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, Cambridge, MA

    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... more

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    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 that tinkering and adjusting will be necessary since our models gives us very little theoretical guidance on what (and how) details will matter. This essay argues that economists should seriously engage with plumbing, in the interest of both society and our discipline.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    Series: Working paper series / Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics ; working paper 17, 03
    MIT Department of Economics Working Paper ; No. 17-03
    Subjects: Entwicklung; Wirtschaftspolitik; Ökonomen; Politikberatung; Entwicklung; Wirtschaftspolitik; Ökonomen; Politikberatung; Economic development; Economic policy
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 40 Seiten), illustrations (some color)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 32-37)

    Abstract in HTML and working paper for download in PDF available via World Wide Web at the Social Science Research Network.
  2. The economist as plumber
    Author: Duflo, Esther
    Published: 23 January 2017
    Publisher:  BREAD, the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development, [Cambridge, Massachusetts]

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    Series: BREAD working paper ; no. 504
    Subjects: Entwicklung; Wirtschaftspolitik; Ökonomen; Politikberatung
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 39 Seiten), Illustrationen
  3. The economist as plumber
    Author: Duflo, Esther
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Centre for Economic Policy Research, London

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    Series: Array ; DP 11881
    Subjects: Entwicklung; Wirtschaftspolitik; Ökonomen; Politikberatung
    Scope: 39 Seiten, Illustrationen
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  4. The economist as plumber
    Author: Duflo, Esther
    Published: March 2017
    Publisher:  National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA

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    Series: Working paper series / National Bureau of Economic Research ; 23213
    Subjects: Entwicklung; Wirtschaftspolitik; Ökonomen; Politikberatung
    Scope: 39 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe