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没有理论的学习

Mar 30, 2016 Ricardo Hausmann

坎布里奇—我们如何改善世界的状态？我们如何让国家更有竞争力，让增长更加可持续和包容，让性别更加平等？

一个办法是拥有一套关于行动和结果之间的关系的正确的理论，然后实施实现我们的目标的行动。但是，在我们所面临的大部分情况里，我们缺少这样的理论，或者虽然有，但不确定它是否正确。那么，我们可以如何做？我们应该暂停行动，直到学习到什么行动能起作用吗？但如果我们不行动，我们如何学习？如果我们行动，我们如何了解我们是否做了正确的事情？

机器学习和生物人类学方面的新进展能让我们一窥学习如何发生以及如何做出成功的学习过程。但是，理论固然重要，但我们学习的大部分东西并不取决于它们。

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Luc Lapointe Apr 3, 2016

Great post Ricardo! Also love the last part about Colombia ... having been here for the past 3 years, in a country with the ability to implement a different model, they have decided to focus on "indexes" created by OECD countries that have little chance of success here when they are addressed individually instead of collectively.
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Abulgasem Al-Mashai Apr 3, 2016

Very important, but /Learning Without Theory/ >>> become theory
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Symbolic Capitalism Revolution
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Where/when the terrorism become invisible power, Without identity, anti-live , there Ideology driven from death, The life exist in the Hereafter.
The future is Haram - Forbidden

https://futuredge.wordpress.com/2016/03/31/terrorism-post-globalization/
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Cary Fraser Apr 3, 2016

An interesting series of observations. Hausmann has called attention to a phenomenon which has a certain relevance for the contemporary world - keen observation is the key to human/social transformation.
Over the course of the 20th century, four countries -Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, and the People's Republic of China - have engaged in keen observation of the West and the four have been central, individually and collectively, to the transformation of the international economy/system since the 1970s.
Imitation should not be discounted in the construction of theory - either to explain success and/or failure.
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Per Kurowski Apr 3, 2016

It is mindboggling how in all writings about Inclusive Growth and Development nothing is said about the risk weighted capital requirements for banks, which by distorting the allocation of bank credit in favor of “the safe” and therefor in detriment of “the risky”, hinders growth and development while boosting exclusion and inequality.

http://subprimeregulations.blogspot.se/2014/12/bank-regulators-originated-and.html
- Javier Cáceres Apr 3, 2016
  
  Yes Per the funding is the key for economical inclusive aims. Capital democratisation is needed as a Medular local strategy for innovation enterprenurship. How many Projects could come to live and how many quality jobs could be created?
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Steve Hurst Apr 2, 2016

One must hope for a lucid period amongst so many long words, that way things may become 'probably approximately correct' or maybe not, depending on the 'shedding light', whatever that is

It is quite understandable people hav an interest in clothes - as Mark Twain noted - naked people have very little influence in society
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Ricardo De Angelis Mar 31, 2016

Puede que el IDH por sí solo no diga o arroje nociones sobre lo que hay que hacer para mejorar el desempeño, pero basta con revisar los informes de desarrollo humano para darse cuenta de la cantidad de análisis, propuestas, contribuciones y posibles soluciones que se hacen allí para contribuir a mejorar el desempeño de los países en términos de desarrollo. Ojo con esto.
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Marc Laventurier Mar 30, 2016

Somebody left the fruit salad out in the academic sun too long.
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Per Kurowski Mar 30, 2016

“Country after country try to improve their competitiveness ranking by working on things that are in the index but that do not really improve their performance. And they are late in finding out, because they do improve their ranking in the index.”

That is exactly what the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative does. EITI tells you that “If there’s transparency it does not matter that a government, like that of Venezuela, concentrates 97 percent of all the export revenues of a nation.

http://theoilcurse.blogspot.com/2009/11/eiti-please-change-your-2nd-principle.html
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Steve Bull Mar 30, 2016

'Sustainable growth' is one of those most overused oxymorons on our planet.
As sustainable is defined as the ability to be maintained (i.e. in perpetuity), infinite growth is impossible on a finite planet. You'd think economists (who one would assume are relatively well educated) would know this and not use such a term and even discuss the possibility.
http://olduvai.ca
- Jose araujo Mar 31, 2016
  
  Well, if you consider that standing still is the natural sate of a body, then yes its an oxymoron, but the natural state for an economy is growth, which makes "sustainable growth" not an oxymoron but a poleonasm
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Jose araujo Mar 30, 2016

Every article of Mr Hausmann is a treaty on fallacies...
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Jose araujo Mar 30, 2016

Benchmark is consultant lingo, or more in more common language, consultant BS.

Benchmark suffers from selection bias, to copy successful behaviors isn't enough, we must see if all the subjects with the behavior we want to copy have been successful.

"We do not really know what could make growth more inclusive, countries more competitive, and development more sustainable in each country and region; and we should not pretend that we do."

I always hate when some people make such claims. Mr. Hausmann, its now we, its you. YOU don't know what makes growth more inclusive, which isn't a big surprise coming from someone who defends your points of view, the only surprise is that you even care about inclusive growth.
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