@natematias @darius Developing and reviewing BCAs has been a core part of the last 15 years of my professional life. I agree with much of what Bergman writes here; here book “Thinking Like an Economist:…” was valuable but would perhaps have been better as a long-form essay (I feel that way about many books, I guess). All analysis has normative foundations; the best ones bring them out into the open in the discussion itself.