From Boston Review March 11, 2019 Ethan Bueno de Mesquita Harris Public Policy Deputy Dean Ethan Bueno de MesquitaHarris Public Policy Sydney Stein Professor and Deputy Dean Ethan Bueno de Mesquita wrote a Forum Response for Boston Review, discussing the term "quantification" and how it contributes to imaginative confines, which in turn prevent effective policy. "We cannot divide the world into a neat dualism of aims and tools—the aims of public policy, on the one hand, and objective, quantitative tools used to pursue those goals, on the other," writes Bueno de Mesquite. "Instead, there is an inherent feedback between the two. How and what we quantify shapes and determines the aims of public policy, just as the aims of public policy shape and determine what we quantify." Full coverage available at Boston Review. Upcoming Events More events Data and Policy Summer Scholars Program (DPSS): Deep-Dive Conversation with Jose Macias and Alexandra Sobczynski Mon., May 06, 2024 | 7:30 PM International Policy Action Lab Mini Class with Austin Wright Tue., May 07, 2024 | 6:00 AM Driving Policy Innovation in the Social Sector in India: Lunch Conversation with Luis Miranda Tue., May 07, 2024 | 12:30 PM Harris School of Public Policy (The Keller Center), Room 2112 1307 E 60th St Chicago, IL 60637 United States