(Bloomberg View) — Usually, when economists think about how to improve the lives of people, they rely on introspection and theoretical assumptions.
Many an econ paper buries itself in abstract calculations of utility and welfare, deploying pages of equations to derive optimal rules of policy.
But there's a simpler, alternate approach to figuring out what kind of policies people want and need: Just ask them.
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