I will argue that despite the fact that there is overlap, and many of the ideas are well known, the knowledge and experience of policy analysis has much to offer effective altruism in achieving the goals of improving the world. Not only that, but it offers a paradigm for how to reasonably pull from multiple disciplines in helping make decisions—exactly what this series of posts is trying to help with.
Did you ever end up writing up those thoughts? I skimmed the rest of the posts in the series but didn’t find it.
On policy analysis, you write:
Did you ever end up writing up those thoughts? I skimmed the rest of the posts in the series but didn’t find it.
Unfortunately, no—as I said here: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/xAZ4pCFtYdkMi54JS/introduction-a-primer-for-politics-policy-and-international?commentId=fuEtwRwTHdrevJPJr