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Ideas Need Proof Of Concept To Win

Ideas alone are not enough to change policy; what is missing is the entrepreneurial intermediate stage of taking an idea to a working proof of concept, which is what RISC aims to do—demonstrating in Cook County that monitoring works, saves money, and is replicable via open-source software so other jurisdictions can adopt it turnkey.

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Speaker

Steven Levitt

Evidence Quote

for 30 years... none of them get adopted.

Source

Steven Levitt on Freakonomics and the State of EconomicsEconTalk
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:19:15 AM

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