Cogs and Monsters: economists, experts and measuring progress

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• Professor Diane Coyle (POLIS)
• Tuesday 20 November 2018, 17:00-18:30
• SG1 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, cb3 9dt.

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Economists have long offered advice as if for a clockwork universe, and for long enough this analytical tradition has made economics highly influential in public policy. Now, though, their expertise is disdained, economic ‘facts’ become matters of opinion, and belief in the idea of economic progress appears to be fading. Ideas have a dangerous habit of bringing about their own reality; so rethinking how to define and measure prosperity, and reflecting on the role of economics in public policy, have become pressing challenges.

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