Making sense of policy advice
By: JACKSON, Peter M.
Material type: ArticlePublisher: Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishers, September 2007Public Money & Management 27, 4, p. 257-264Abstract: The relationship between theory and practice is complex, ambiguous, incomplete and frequently contested. This article explores the labyrinth of the policy-making process along with changes in economists' discourses. The knowledge bases of the worlds of practice and theory are examined concluding that it is a modern conceit to believe that academic knowledge is necessarily superior to that of practiceNo physical items for this record
The relationship between theory and practice is complex, ambiguous, incomplete and frequently contested. This article explores the labyrinth of the policy-making process along with changes in economists' discourses. The knowledge bases of the worlds of practice and theory are examined concluding that it is a modern conceit to believe that academic knowledge is necessarily superior to that of practice
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