Randomistas - How Radical Researchers Are Changing Our World

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Leigh is shadow assistant treasurer and an Australian MP. Before entering politics he worked as an economics professor at the Australian National University. His books include Disconnected, Battlers and Billionaires, and The Luck of Politics . Klappentext The use of randomised trials in research in designing policy, lowering crime rates and improving living standards is explored anecdotally across a series of interesting cases, interrogating a method of knowledge-gathering that continues to shape our experience. Zusammenfassung A fascinating account of how radical researchers have used experiments to overturn conventional wisdom and shaped life as we know it

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Leigh, Leigh Andrew
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9780300236125
• ISBN: 978-0-300-23612-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 240 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics, Experimental Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Experimental Psychology, Behavioural economics, Social research & statistics, Social research and statistics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Social & Behavioral