Policymakers should not act like scientists

What Should Policymakers Know About Economic Complexity?

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Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries: What Economists (Don’t) Know and What Policymakers Should (Not) Do!

Physician scientists: We need to act now.

The Arbitration Fairness Act: It Need Not and Should Not Be an All or Nothing Proposition

Why should biomedical scientists care about biodiversity?

The ecological tradition is different: ecologists emphasise the diversity of their organisms, and many ecologists would argue that their organism is ‘unique’ because it exhibits adaptations to its environment. This uniqueness is encapsulated in the Linnaean binomial nomenclature: this label, by definition, establishes that a group of organisms is distinct enough from their relatives. Sticking t...