Hidesight: Policy wonks head down to Old McDonald's Farm
Public service mandarins tune into 'E-I-E-I-O' to reinvent policy-making.
Fri, 17 Mar 2017
There was a brief, glorious time when policy was evaluated using economics. Policy advice then had discipline and logic backed by 250 years of intellectual inquiry.
Not any more.
The politicians and bureaucrats quickly realised that economics shows much of policy counter-productive, most