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Jacqueline Best - Endogenizing the limits of ideas: a how-to guide
Date and time
Monday 14. April 2025 at 10:00 to 12:00
Registration Deadline
Friday 11. April 2025 at 12:00
Location
K4.74,
Kilevej 14a,
2000 Frederiksberg
K4.74
Kilevej 14a
2000 Frederiksberg
Jacqueline Best - Endogenizing the limits of ideas: a how-to guide
Event Description
This talk makes the case for changing the way the political economy of ideas is understood by focusing on the limits of ideas—specifically, the role of ignorance, failure, and friction in policymakers’ efforts to translate ideas into practice. Recent practice-based scholarship has introduced important innovations to ideational research, shifting from a paradigm-based methodology to an approach that begins with concrete, everyday ideas, and developing a richer ontology of ideas that acknowledges the materiality of policy devices, models, and techniques. However, this scholarship continues to rely too heavily on an epistemology of social learning, in which failures and ignorance are seen as temporary obstacles to be overcome through policy adaptation and change. This talk advocates for a more nuanced epistemology that endogenizes the limits of ideas, recognizing that policymakers do not always seek to learn from failures and, at times, find ignorance to be useful. Drawing on efforts to integrate these limits into research, the discussion will offer practical guidance on how to examine the role of failure, friction, and ignorance in economic policymaking.
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Organizer Contact Information
Copenhagen Business School
Phone: +45 3815 3815
seminar.ioa@cbs.dk
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Organizer Contact Information
Copenhagen Business School
Phone: +45 3815 3815
seminar.ioa@cbs.dk