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  1. Making Policies about Emerging Technologies.Gregory E. Kaebnick & Michael K. Gusmano - 2018 - Hastings Center Report 48 (S1):2-11.
    Can we make wise policy decisions about still‐emerging technologies—decisions that are grounded in facts yet anticipate unknowns and promote the public's preferences and values? There is a widespread feeling that we should try. There also seems to be widespread agreement that the central element in wise decisions is the assessment of benefits and costs, understood as a process that consists, at least in part, in measuring, tallying, and comparing how different outcomes would affect the public interest. But how benefits and (...)
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  • Demystifying Evidence‐Based Policy Analysis by Revealing Hidden Value‐Laden Constraints.Adam M. Finkel - 2018 - Hastings Center Report 48 (S1):21-49.
    Consider any choice that affects some social policy. A decision that considers evidence will, at its heart, contain some kind of explicit or implicit “because” statement: “We are doing X because the evidence says Y.” But can evidence ever truly speak for itself, in the sense of being reducible to objective utterances that are either correct or in need of correction? Before answering, consider what you'd prefer. Would you rather receive evidence that was free of any value judgments imposed by (...)
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