Alice M Rivlin
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Brookings Institution Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Partisan warfare and gridlock in Washington threaten to squander America's opportunity to show the world that democracy can solve serious economic problems and ensure widely shared prosperity. Instead of working together to meet the challenges ahead--an aging work force, exploding inequality, climate change, rising debt--our elected leaders are sabotaging our economic future by blaming and demonizing each other in hopes of winning big in the next...
Publisher
Brookings Institution Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"Authors suggest reforms in federal programs that have the potential to reduce the growth of spending for the entire health system, increase the efficiency and effectiveness of care provided, and enhance health outcomes and stress the need for innovative approaches and cooperation between the private and public sectors"--Provided by publisher.
