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Evidence-Based Policy: A Practical Guide to Doing it Better, Nancy Cartwright and Jeremy Hardie. Oxford University Press, 2013, ix + 196 pages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2014

Naftali Weinberger
Naftali Weinberger*
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University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA
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Economics & Philosophy , Volume 30 , Issue 1: ‘Themes from the Work of Amartya Sen: Identity, Rationality, and Justice’ , March 2014 , pp. 113 - 120
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