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CREATED:20190528T171114
SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar: Gilles Saint-Paul - PSE & NYUAD
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:\n\nUseful Idiots or Manipulators? Some Examples of Non-neutrality of Econo
 mic Experts\n\n\nAbstract:\nIn this work in progress, I challenge the stand
 ard view that the government maximizes social welfare on the basis of objec
 tive information provided by experts, such as economists. In this view, the
  experts are perfect agents: they provide unbiased information on the welfa
 re effects of policy. Consequently, since information has a positive value,
  experts contribute positively to the people's welfare. Instead, I argue th
 at expertise is an input into a political process. Its ultimate effects dep
 end on how each interest group uses the information provided by the expert.
  Therefore, it maybe counterproductive to deliver studies independently of 
 the decision process; conversely, an expert who understands this process ma
 y manipulate it to fit his own agenda.\n
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