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Learning Lessons - Medicine, Economics, and Public Policy (Paperback)
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Learning Lessons - Medicine, Economics, and Public Policy (Paperback)
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This is a book about the policy process. It discusses the
considerations advisers have in mind as they develop and select
policy alternatives, the ways each of us might want to think about
making decisions, and the lessons we should remember in order to
minimize avoidable errors. In writing about his experiences in
government, the classroom, and private life, Fein offers insights
that apply to people responsible for decisions in many kinds of
institutions, at all levels of responsibility. His anecdotes and
the situations he describes are drawn from over fifty years of
experience in the policy arena. They are not intended to represent
either a rounded theory about public administration or a
comprehensive treatment of important components of political
science. Like most people in the policy arena, Fein came to that
work from another discipline-in his case economics. His experience
of "finding his own way" through action and experience rather than
through application of theory might appear quaint. But his
successes, failures, and the lessons he learned, illuminate the
process and may prove useful, even inspirational. Fein is sensitive
to the need to move beyond statistics and to present the real world
and the faces of real people behind the data. He believes that an
effective adviser should bring knowledge and interests that extend
beyond the confines of a single discipline, even one as
methodologically powerful as economics. Unless the adviser presents
a range of choices that have been developed with contributions from
many fields of knowledge, the proposed policies are likely to be
far too constrained and, at worst, unworkable. His perspective,
articulated in this book, is easily summarized: there is more to
life and to our nation's welfare than economics. We live in a
society, not in an economy.
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