Why cash transfers to the poor are not the next big thing (chrisblattman.com)

Note that this should be read as a companion piece to this HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5768570.

An admirable attempt to slow down the hype train which could derail his work, but weird to see him backpedaling against his own work, in the face of encouragement.

But, good for him, I suppose, that he got to write the inevitable highly-oupvoted contrarian post himself, instead of some random blogger taking a potshot.