
Emily Chamlee-Wright on The Economic Way Of Thinking & The Messiness Of The Social World
Hayek Program Podcast
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How Did Field Work in Ghana Work?
I'm not trying to gather facts right I'm in the sense of there are things that are unknown about what happened for example and then I want to gather facts. The value of talking to people is almost always not about gathering the facts as much as gathering an understanding of different perspectives that are shaping their decision-making processes. What were the commonalities amongst all the amongst women in the marketplace and oftentimes it was the the commonality was their experience and difficulties of keeping control over resources vis-a-vis the men in their lives.What were the strategies that they cultivated and practiced to help keep the resources in their uh under their control? Those were the kinds of things that I was after
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