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The Economist as Plumber

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Duflo, Esther·2017·American Economic Review
DOI 10.1257/aer.p20171153
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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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Authors
Duflo, E.
Venue
American Economic Review
Publisher
American Economic Association
Published
2017-05-01
Volume
107
Issue
5
Pages
1-26
ISSN
0002-8282 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1257/aer.p20171153
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W2597744808
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258
References
33
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34.67
Type
journal article
Language
en
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