I do want to bring econ into the mainstream evaluation fold. My process here was been to work at that via decision theory and axiology, since I'm not sure that a lot of popular economic ideas are even applicable to evaluation. For example... I keep thinking about the efficient market hypothesis – it would hypothesize that there aren't easy improvements to be made to programs (or else they would have already been made) but this is the opposite of my experience. Econ and evaluation need to have a long talk, I think.
You are so close to becoming an econ blog, I’m very curious where this thought trajectory goes.
I do want to bring econ into the mainstream evaluation fold. My process here was been to work at that via decision theory and axiology, since I'm not sure that a lot of popular economic ideas are even applicable to evaluation. For example... I keep thinking about the efficient market hypothesis – it would hypothesize that there aren't easy improvements to be made to programs (or else they would have already been made) but this is the opposite of my experience. Econ and evaluation need to have a long talk, I think.