Matthew J. Holian, "Data and the American Dream: Contemporary Social Controversies and the American Community Survey" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
New Books in Economics
00:00
Are We Spending a Billion Dollars to Achieve Nothing?
I don't think i ever rcovered in any of my training like, you know, cost benif analysis. In a certain sense, it's implicit in everything we do as economists. It's not something where we actually get into the the nothing bolts of it,. But the magnitude matters because if we're overlooking a policy, we want to know if we're spending a billion dollars to achieve nothing? Or are achieving a whole lot with it?"
Transcript
Play full episode
