Economics & Marginalia: February 2, 2024 | Center For Global ...

Tim Harford considers ‘addition by subtraction’—the idea that removing items is a neglected way of improving things. Anyone who has sent a paper for comments with the note that ‘it’s already too long, so suggestions on what to excise are very welcome’ will know that the vast majority of replies nevertheless suggest additions rather than deletions.

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a big constraint to women’s empowerment is men: so if there are no men in the room, the meeting is probably not doing all it should