Tom Murphy — whose Twitter feed is perhaps the feed to follow if you have an interest in development policy — tweeted last week about a post about food prices on the Guardian‘s Datablog:
Published June 20, 2011
Marc F. Bellemare Posts
Published June 20, 2011
Krugman on Hume: How Do We Know? We Don’t
“Then I read Hume’s Enquiry, this wonderful, humane book saying that nobody has all the answers. What we know is what we have evidence for. We do the best we can, but anybody who claims to be able to deduce or have revelation about The Truth – with both Ts capitalised – is wrong. It doesn’t work that way. The only reasonable way to approach life is with an attitude of humane scepticism. I felt that a great weight had been lifted from my shoulders when I read that book.”
The (Mis)Use of Knowledge in Afghan Society
An unfortunately titled op-ed in this morning’s New York Times — “Afghanistan’s Last Locavores” — turns out to be about US development policy in Afghanistan, but the points it makes apply far beyond Afghanistan’s borders: