25 years ago, Ken Rogoff taught macro to my incoming graduate class at Wisconsin. I must confess I don't remember much macro from then (sorry, my brain has always been oriented to micro and institutional.)
As someone who has worked on data analysis that affected real people's lives (postal rates and budget analysis) I wince in sympathy at making an error.
However, I'm now a programmer, and we QA stuff before releasing it. And I would think that before you drew a conclusion that would make so many people suffer, you'd double check it.
So what that tells me is that there's a real lack of empathy in people who are working on policy.
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As someone who has worked on data analysis that affected real people's lives (postal rates and budget analysis) I wince in sympathy at making an error.
However, I'm now a programmer, and we QA stuff before releasing it. And I would think that before you drew a conclusion that would make so many people suffer, you'd double check it.
So what that tells me is that there's a real lack of empathy in people who are working on policy.