Enjoyed, thanks! And agree with rather everything. FWIW:
Economic policy experiments happen very regularly (applied economic research), but you’re still right: they’re costly (I guess one could say because we cannot randomly ‘mistreat’ people/a town, we can rather give it only a treatment where arguably they clearly cannot loose out compared to status quo) and we lack enthusiasm (or your Ministry for Experiments) thus still too rare and too small and cautious, very much in line with what you write
Ideas in direction of “Independent and Competing Institutions” is another idea towards similar aim: have no unique block ‘country’ gvmt, but independent services with providers competing (in practice I think it’s difficult but maybe worth investigating deeper)
Different point:
Values! Sometimes differences in ultimate values i.e. ultimate preferences actually exist, and can lead to very different conclusions without anyone actually necessarily being ‘wrong’ unless you’re sure you really want to call something ‘wrong preference’.
Enjoyed, thanks! And agree with rather everything. FWIW:
Economic policy experiments happen very regularly (applied economic research), but you’re still right: they’re costly (I guess one could say because we cannot randomly ‘mistreat’ people/a town, we can rather give it only a treatment where arguably they clearly cannot loose out compared to status quo) and we lack enthusiasm (or your Ministry for Experiments) thus still too rare and too small and cautious, very much in line with what you write
Ideas in direction of “Independent and Competing Institutions” is another idea towards similar aim: have no unique block ‘country’ gvmt, but independent services with providers competing (in practice I think it’s difficult but maybe worth investigating deeper)
Different point:
Values! Sometimes differences in ultimate values i.e. ultimate preferences actually exist, and can lead to very different conclusions without anyone actually necessarily being ‘wrong’ unless you’re sure you really want to call something ‘wrong preference’.
Firstly, thank you! Praise is very important for beginning writers.
Agreed with 1 and 3.