https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/How-valuable-are-evaluations https://booksandideas.net/How-valuable-are-evaluations 2023-07-06T08:30:00Z text/html en Coline Soler university research reform evaluation Science Cairn.info <p>For twenty years, universities and research have been the target of reforms and evaluations. Clémentine Gozlan examines the making of these mechanisms, which are central to the new system of academic governance—in which academics often participate.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Learning-from-Randomized-Controlled-Experiments https://booksandideas.net/Learning-from-Randomized-Controlled-Experiments 2017-01-23T08:00:00Z text/html en Agnès Labrousse Economy evaluation experimentation experimental economics Institut français <p>Randomized controlled experiments hold out the promise of heightened scientificity and new forms of social action. In this essay, Agnès Labrousse points out some of the practical limits of these experiments and situates them within a longer history of social experimentation and governing by evidence.</p> https://booksandideas.net/What-Can-We-Learn-From-Ecological https://booksandideas.net/What-Can-We-Learn-From-Ecological 2014-06-16T07:30:00Z text/html en Albert Merino-Saum & Philippe Roman Economy environmentalism evaluation interdisciplinarity Florence Gould Foundation <p>Environmental economics, the economics of natural resources, sustainable development, green economics, sustainability science, bioeconomics, ecodevelopment: the disciplines and concepts situated at the crossroads of environmentalism and economics are many. This article examines “ecological economics,” a field that has achieved academic recognition and launched numerous debates.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Randomized-Evaluation-A-Success https://booksandideas.net/Randomized-Evaluation-A-Success 2013-12-16T08:30:00Z text/html en Yannick L'Horty & Pascale Petit Economy development public policy evaluation Institut du monde contemporain <p>Randomized evaluation has become very fashionable. Initially developed in the field of development economics, it has now spread to many public policy areas. Yannick L'Horty and Pascale Petit here discuss the advantages and the limits of this relatively recent tool for evaluating social policies.</p> https://booksandideas.net/How-to-Find-Out-How-to-Do https://booksandideas.net/How-to-Find-Out-How-to-Do 2009-04-30T11:24:48Z text/html en Howard S. Becker Society United States of America la suite droite sociology research evaluation <p>Basing his discussion on a reading of recognized classics in social science, Howard Becker offers a critique of the new ways in which sociological work is to be funded in the United States and calls for the respect of the fundamentally inductive nature of qualitative research.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Designing-wisdom-through-the-Web https://booksandideas.net/Designing-wisdom-through-the-Web 2008-09-30T07:38:21Z text/html en Gloria Origgi Arts media internet la suite gauche information evaluation networks <p>How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers? Gloria Origgi claims that Internet is a giant network of ranking and rating systems in which information is valued as long as it has been already filtered by other people. The <i>Information Age</i> is being replaced by a <i>Reputation Age</i>.</p>