Occam's Razor of Public Policy

Shah, Ajay

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%T Occam's Razor of Public Policy
%A Shah, Ajay
%J IndraStra Global
%N 2
%P 5
%D 2016
%@ 2381-3652
%~ National Institute for Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, India
%> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-48688-1
%X Occam's razor is the idea that when two rival theories explain a phenomenon, the simpler theory is to be preferred. Aristotle's epicycles fit the data as well as Kepler's ellipses, and a pure empiricist could have been agnostic between the two. Occam's razor guides us in preferring Kepler's ellipses on the grounds that this is a simpler explanation.
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%G en
%9 Zeitschriftenartikel
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