Evidence-based Policy
A Practical Guide to Doing It Better
Over the last twenty or so years, it has become standard to require policy makers to base their recommendations on evidence. That is now uncontroversial to the point of triviality¿of course, policy should be based on the facts. But are the methods that policy makers rely on to gather and analyze evidence the right ones? In Evidence-Based Policy, Nancy Cartwright, an eminent scholar, and Jeremy Hardie, who has had a long and successful career in bothbusiness and the economy, explain that the dominant methods which are in use now¿broadly speaking, methods that imitate standard practices in medicine like randomized control trials¿do not work. Th…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Hardie, Jeremy (Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences, LSE)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-984162-2
- EAN: 9780199841622
- Produktnummer: 17688887
- Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.4 cm 300 g
- Gewicht: 300
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Nancy Cartwright is Professor of Philosophy at UC-San Diego and London School of Economics.Jeremy Hardie is an Honorary Fellow of Keble College, Oxford and a Fellow of King's College London; he is also Vice President of the Royal Economic Society, and was Chairman of the WH Smith Group from 1992 to 2010.
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