Economics As the Most Politically Influential Field of Knowledge Production
Andrew Plume, Tian Mahony and Joanna Chataway IPPO is an interdisciplinary initiative established to inform policy with rigorous evidence. It follows therefore that the question of how evidence impacts policy is an important area of interest. This blog adds to reflections from a seminar series that IPPO has organized on the theme of ‘innovations on making evidence useful’ and to other pieces of writing on this website on the topic of how we think about the relationship between evidence and policy. This blog in particular considers whether economics is particularly influential. More...