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Pushing development economists onto the big questions risks pressing them to pretend they have big answers.

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

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  1. Noah Smith

    Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter

    So we should be careful that exhortations for development economists to focus on the Big Questions don’t pressure them to pretend that they have the Big Answers.

    Where this was said

    ↗Could development economics be more useful?noahpinion.blog

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