Author: R. N. MacKeanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Efficiency in Government Through Systems Analysis
Author: Roland N. McKeanEfficiency in Government Through Systems Analysis
Author: R. N. MacKeanEfficiency in Government Through Systems Analysis
Author: Roland N. MckeanSelected Water Resources Abstracts
Author: The Analysis and Evaluation of Public Expenditures: the PPB System: pt. 1. The appropriate functions of government in an enterprise system. pt. 2. Institutional factors affecting efficient public expenditure policy. pt. 3. Some problems of analysis in evaluating public expenditure alternatives
Author: The Analysis and Evaluation of Public Expenditures : the PPB System
Author: History of Operations Research in the United States Army, Volume 2: 1961-1973, 2008
Author: Systems Analysis in Public Policy
Author: Ida R. HoosPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520049529
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Author: Howard EisnerPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 100053278X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
This book provides an overview of cost-effectiveness analysis, which is a well-known and intuitive method for defining and choosing among a set of alternatives. This book relates cost-effectiveness analysis to systems engineering to solve everyday problems at home and the office. It can also be used in technical processes, system design, and project management. Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: A Systems Engineering Perspective starts with providing an overview and background of cost-effectiveness analysis and how it’s used. It then goes on to discuss cost-effectiveness concerning systems engineering and links its use to resolving military issues and problems. The book comes to an end with exploring the usage related to systems architecting, re-engineering office systems, and comparing its use to everyday life decision-making scenarios. Targeted market includes general engineers, systems engineers, process engineers, project management, scientists, technologists, mathematicians, and lawyers.
Thinking Like an Economist
Author: Elizabeth Popp BermanPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691167389
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
"Economics is the queen of the social sciences, and economists are among the most prominent of experts in Washington. No other discipline has its own office in the White House, is as visible in the New York Times, or as frequently mentioned in the Congressional Record. Yet at the same time, the limits on economists' influence are quite clear. Their advice is often ignored until it is politically convenient, and as the current moment shows, politicians can cut experts out of the loop entirely. The sharp contrast between economists' overwhelming support for pricing carbon emissions and the complete lack of federal climate action provides a particularly keen demonstration of these limits. So how does economics matter to the policy process? In Thinking Like an Economist: How Economics Became the Language of U.S. Public Policy, Popp Berman argues that while economists' policy advice may sometimes have an impact, the spread of an economic style of reasoning - basic microeconomic ideas about efficiency, tradeoffs, incentives, choice and competition, spread through professional schools and institutionalized through organizational and legal change - has had more fundamental effects. Although economists had influence in a handful of policy domains by mid-century, between the 1960s and the 1980s the economic style circulated and was stabilized in a range of new locations. Much of this change was driven by two intellectual communities: a group of systems analysts who came from RAND with new answers to the question "How should government make decisions?", and a network of industrial organization economists, centered first at Harvard and later Chicago, who asked "How should government regulate markets?" These two communities helped spread economics to law and public policy schools, established economic reasoning in a range of organizations in and around government, and in some cases institutionalized legal requirements for use of the economic style. Built upon five years of research, the book makes comparisons across a number of policy domains, including primary case studies of antipoverty, antitrust, and environmental policy, as well as episodes from education, housing, labor, transportation, health, and communications policy. Drawing on historical evidence from nine archives, more than a hundred previously collected oral histories, and thousands of primary and secondary sources, it provides a new answer to the question of why U.S. politics took a lasting rightward turn during the 1970s, and new ideas about what it might take to reverse that change - not the rejection of economics, but an honest grappling with its political effects"--