Knowledge and its consequences
What follows understanding?
Across history, human development, economics, energy, poverty, and law, WE KNOW BETTER examines inherited institutions alongside the evidence that now surrounds them.
It asks how a system’s intended purpose compares with its real effects, and why assumptions can outlast the findings that challenge them. Difficult tradeoffs and incomplete evidence remain part of the question. The invitation is to examine where change is warranted—and what stands in its way.
Which assumptions have survived the evidence against them?
How do we judge a system by what it actually produces?
What makes better knowledge become a better decision?