Munger Michael C <br/><br/>
Analyzing policy : Choices, conflicts and practices 

 - London  W W Norton & Co.  2000 
 - 430p  xi 
<br/><br/>Table of contents<br/>Part 1 Policy happens when we decide to decide: an overview of policy analysis as a profession and a process; <br/>deciding how to decide - "experts", "the people", and "the market". <br/>Part 2 Why is policy analysis important?: a benchmark for performance - what is a "market"; <br/>case study <br/>1 - a simple exchange economy; evaluation and "market failure" - criteria for intervention; <br/>experts and "advocacy" - the limits of policy analysis; democracy and "government failure" - the limits of choice by the people; <br/>case study <br/>2 - a simple command polity. <br/>Part 3 How is policy analysis conducted?: the welfare economics paradigm - introduction to analytics; <br/>choice of regulatory form - efficiency, equity, or politics?; <br/>case study <br/>3 social security crisis.<br/>Part 4 Cost-benefit analysis; <br/>discounting <br/>1 - probability, expected values and risk; <br/>discounting <br/>2 - time; <br/>cost-benefit analysis. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780393973990 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>1. Policy Sciences 2. Evaluation
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>320.600000  / MUN