Esther Duflo Quotes

• In technology, we spend so much time experimenting, fine-tuning, getting the absolute cheapest way to do something - so why aren't we doing that with social policy?

  Esther Duflo

  Technology, Way, Tuning

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• And there is a lot of idiosyncrasy. But there are also regularities and phenomena. And what the data is going to be able to do - if there's enough of it - is uncover, in the mess and the noise of the world, some lines of music that actually have harmony. It's there, somewhere.

  Esther Duflo

  Data, World, Lines

  "The Poverty Lab". Interview with Ian Parker, www.newyorker.com. May 17, 2010.

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