Esther Duflo (MIT) gives the 15th Barcelona Economics lecture of the Barcelona GSE Research Network on January 14, 2009. The talk is titled "Fighting Poverty Effectively: Creating Experimentation in Development Economics.
Lol..farmers in Kenya are very mischievous...the gov't ought to give them free fertilizer....their land is overused growing one or two crops over the years
All sciences are value-laden. We have limited resources to investigate the world. No physicist would turn down a job working on a nuclear reactor becuase that was 'directed' physics, or not 'pure' physics.
Why is there even a question of whether development economics is an applied science? The Chicago school still, obviously, has an agenda; their agenda is to justify do nothing and believe that by doing nothing we are actually doing the best thing. How is that positivist?!
lol.
katheryncruz24 2 months ago
Lol..farmers in Kenya are very mischievous...the gov't ought to give them free fertilizer....their land is overused growing one or two crops over the years
siasabora 9 months ago
All sciences are value-laden. We have limited resources to investigate the world. No physicist would turn down a job working on a nuclear reactor becuase that was 'directed' physics, or not 'pure' physics.
Why is there even a question of whether development economics is an applied science? The Chicago school still, obviously, has an agenda; their agenda is to justify do nothing and believe that by doing nothing we are actually doing the best thing. How is that positivist?!
hymnofashes 1 year ago