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Development economists can contribute far less to a poor country’s growth policy in real time than either they or their critics assume.

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humility Knowing what you do not know: whether it makes you learn and decide better, or costs you the self-belief that gets things done.

economists The economists themselves and the schools they founded -- Smith, Mill, Keynes, Hayek, Friedman -- rather than any one economic question.

What Noah Smith actually said

  1. Noah Smith Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter
    Unless and until AI gets smart enough to study human society from a bird’s-eye view, I think we should be humble about how much we expect development economists to be able to contribute to developing countries’ growth policies in real time.

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