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Section I: What Is Public Policy?
Chapter 1: Public Decision Making
Chapter 2: Why Is It So Hard to Make the World a Better Place?
Section II: Why We Do What We Do
Chapter 3: Understanding Individual Behavior: Rational Man and
Woman
Chapter 4: Understanding Group Behavior: Collective Action
Chapter 5: Evaluating Social Welfare
Section III: Markets and Government
Chapter 6: The Political Process
Chapter 7: The Market System
Chapter 8: The Role of Government
Section IV: Tools for Analysis
Chapter 9: Gathering and Measuring Information
Chapter 10: Basic Data Analysis
Chapter 11: Introduction to Regression Analysis
Chapter 12: Benefit-Cost Analysis
Chapter 13: Program Evaluation
Section V: Making Policy
Chapter 14: The Role of Institutions
Chapter 15: Policy Design
Charles Wheelan is the author of the best-selling Naked Statistics and Naked Economics and is a former correspondent for the Economist. He teaches public policy at Dartmouth College and lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, with his family.
"By far the best textbook for a course in undergraduate public
policy. I have been looking for a text that really incorporates
economics into the study of public policy. One cannot truly
understand the politics behind policy, and how to analyze policies,
without having a basic background in economics, especially
microeconomics…Each chapter is beautifully written… I am looking
forward to using this text."
*Daniel Scheller, The Florida State University*
"Wheelan’s new text is indeed one of the most fluidly written,
engaging, sometimes jaunty and sometimes challenging books on the
subject. My students will see many topics come alive with this
analytical yet unpretentious treatment of public policy principles.
The author draws the students into the questions and then turns
them toward economics and public-policy analysis concepts."
*Gregory Gleason, The University of New Mexico*
"Wheelan’s new text is indeed one of the most fluidly written,
engaging, sometimes jaunty and sometimes challenging books on the
subject. My students will see many topics come alive with this
analytical yet unpretentious treatment of public policy principles.
The author draws the students into the questions and then turns
them toward economics and public-policy analysis concepts."
*Michael Hammig, Clemson University*
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