Mises Wire
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Carmen Elena Dorobăț
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A NBER working paper published this month purports to show how economists, who now undertake more and more policy work, should see their job in terms very similar to plumbers. The author, Esther Duflo, argues that “economists should seriously engage with plumbing, in the interest of both society and our discipline [since] plumbers try to predict