Systematic Thinking for Social Action

Rivlin, Alice M.

ISBN 10: 0815774788 / ISBN 13: 9780815774785

Editore: Brookings Institution Press, 1971

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Riassunto:

How can we identify who benefits from government programs aimed at solving our social problem and who pays for them? With so many problems, how can we allocate scarce funds to promote the maximum well-being of our citizens?

In this book, originally presented as the third series of H. Rowan Gaither Lectures in Systems Science at the University of California (Berkeley). Alice M. Rivlin examines the contributions that systematic analysis has made to decisionmaking in the government's "social action" programs—education, health, manpower training, and income maintenance. Drawing on her own experience in government, Mrs. Rivlin indicates where the analysts have been helpful in finding solutions and where—because of inadequate data or methods—they have been no help at all.

Mrs. Rivlin concludes by urging the widespread implementation of social experimentation and acceptability by the federal government. The first in such a way as to permit valid conclusions about their effectiveness; the second would encourage the adoption of better ways of delivering services by making those who administer programs responsive to their clients. Underlying both is the requirement from comprehensive, reliable performance measures.

Informazioni sull?autore: <div><p><b>Alice M. Rivlin </b>is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution and visiting professor at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute. She has been director of both the White House Office of Management and Budget and the Congressional Budget Office, and has served as vice chair of the Federal Reserve Board. Among her previous books is <i>Beyond the Dot.coms: The Economic Promise of the Internet </i>(Brookings, 2001), written with Robert Litan.</p></div>

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Titolo: Systematic Thinking for Social Action
Casa editrice: Brookings Institution Press
Data di pubblicazione: 1971
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket