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Monday, December 13, 2010
Law lab
Testing drugs? Check. Testing software? Check. Testing machinery? Check. Testing NHL rules? Check. Testing laws?
As Donald Green of Yale says, “We test pharmaceuticals because there are billions of
dollars at stake, and lives.” The same, he argues, is true of our laws, yet we don’t
subject them to the same scrutiny. “In some ways the question is, how badly do we
want to know?”
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“The randomized experiment is kind of the gold standard in medicine and social
science,” says Ian Ayres, a Yale law professor and economist who advances the idea
of the tax experiment in a forthcoming paper. “We should use that same tool to
inform us whether laws work.”
Glove-slap: NaOH.
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