(2018)
The devil’s in the details is a common saying about policy proposals . Perhaps we need a similar saying for policy research , something like the devil’s in the caveats . I say this both because nonspecialists (the citizens and policymakers who are ultimately responsible for evaluating policy in any democracy) have great difficulty understanding what research implies about policy and because specialists often have difficulty understanding what citizens and policymakers most hope to learn from policy research.
This problem creates great difficulty for Universal Basic Income (UBI) experiments which are now getting underway in several countries. These experiments […]
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