What Ought to Be if "There Ought to Be a Law"

Papers in economics are generally considered incomplete if they do not have policy implications; however, the policy implications often make a lot of unfounded assumptions about how the policy will be implemented and whether it will be successful. While it might not be the responsibility of an author discussing policy implications, the policy implications need to be considered with reference to the considerations laid out by Jason Brennan and Christopher Freiman and elaborated here, as Steven Horwitz explained in his scholarship and popular work "Ought Implies Can."