{"title":"How and why history matters for development policy","authors":"M. Woolcock, S. Szreter, V. Rao","doi":"10.7765/9781526151612.00007","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. Getting history wrong is an essential part of being a nation. [M]odern social science, policy-making and planning have pursued a model of scientism and technical manipulation which systematically, and deliberately, neglects human, and above all, historical, experience. The fashionable model of analysis and prediction is to feed all available current data into some notional or real super-computer and let it come out with the answers … [S]uch a-historical or even anti-historical calculation is often unaware of being blind, and inferior to even the unsystematic vision of those who can use their eyes.","PeriodicalId":427902,"journal":{"name":"History, historians and development policy","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"History, historians and development policy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526151612.00007","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. Getting history wrong is an essential part of being a nation. [M]odern social science, policy-making and planning have pursued a model of scientism and technical manipulation which systematically, and deliberately, neglects human, and above all, historical, experience. The fashionable model of analysis and prediction is to feed all available current data into some notional or real super-computer and let it come out with the answers … [S]uch a-historical or even anti-historical calculation is often unaware of being blind, and inferior to even the unsystematic vision of those who can use their eyes.
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