Systematic thinking for social action
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Systematic thinking for social action
（H. Rowan Gaither lectures in systems science）
Brookings Institution, c1971
- : cloth
- : pbk
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"Lectures delivered January 1970, at the University of California, Berkeley, under the sponsorship of the Graduate School of Business Administration and the Center for Research in Management Science."
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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.
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