About the Blog

I shall post videos, graphs, news stories, and other material. We shall use some of this material in class, and you may review the rest at your convenience. I encourage you to use the blog in these ways:

--To post questions or comments about the readings before we discuss them in class;
--To follow up on class discussions with additional comments or questions.
--To post relevant news items or videos.

There are only two major limitations: no coarse language, and no derogatory comments about people at the Claremont Colleges. This blog is on the open Internet, so post nothing that you would not want a potential employer to see.

Monday, September 12, 2011

Policy Analysis: A First Cut

The Eightfold Path
  • Define the Problem
  • Assemble Some Evidence: other governments, think tanks
  • Construct the Alternatives
  • Select the Criteria: efficiency and effectiveness
  • Project the Outcomes
  • Confront the Trade-offs
  • Decide
  • Tell Your Story: SUCCES
Markets and Non-Markets
  • Externalities and public goods v. "internalities" and private goods
  • Increasing returns v. redundant and rising costs
  • Market imperfections v. derived externalities
  • Inequity of income & weath v. inequity of influence & power



No comments:

Post a Comment