Contributing Authors -- Preface -- 1 Economists as Policy Analysts: Historical Overview -- 2 Continuing Controversies in Policy Analysis -- 3 Beyond Efficiency: Economics and Distributional Analysis -- 4 Beyond Self-Interest -- 5 Economic Theories of Decision Making Under Uncertainty:...

Policy scientists have long been concerned with understanding the basic tools, or instruments, that governments can use to accomplish their goals. The initial interest in inductively developing comprehensive lists of generic instruments for policy analysis soon gave way to efforts to discover...