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Randomised Trials as a Dead-end for African Development

  • Seán M. Muller
    Seán M. Muller School of Economics University of Johannesburg South Africa https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5892-0609 (unauthenticated)
    Dr Seán Mfundza Muller is a Senior Research Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study University of Johannesburg. An economist by training, his work spans a wide spectrum from public policy and applied microeconomics to causal inference, philosophy of science,...
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  • Seán M. Muller, School of Economics University of Johannesburg South Africa

    Dr Seán Mfundza Muller is a Senior Research Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study University of Johannesburg. An economist by training, his work spans a wide spectrum from public policy and applied microeconomics to causal inference, philosophy of science, and higher education. Within this, one of his core areas of current research concerns the methodology and philosophy of economics. To date, his work has appeared in journals such as Economics Letters, World Bank Economic Review, Higher Education, World Development, Development and Change, South African Journal of Philosophy, and History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. His first monograph, The Incentivised University: Scientific Revolutions, Policies, Consequences, is due to be published by Springer in October 2021.

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