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That’s Not What We Meant to Do: Reform and Its Unintended Consequences in Twentieth-Century America by Steven M. Gillon
The art of economics, as Henry Hazlitt might put it, is to uncover the unanticipated effects of an act. In “That’s Not What We Meant to Do,” historian Steven M. Gillon details the history of five federal acts. He states, “My goal is fairly modest: to tell a few stories of how unintended consequences occur, to speculate about their significance, and to inspire more research and discussion about this often mentioned but infrequently explored theme.”
1Jul2001 | Philip Murray | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review ~ Governments End: Why Washington Stopped Working by Jonathan Rauch
Public Affairs • 1999 • 295 pages • $12.00 Jonathan Rauch is among the keenest observers of government in the United States. By “government’s end” he means that “government has become what it is and will remain: a large, incoherent, often incomprehensible mass that is solicitous of its clients but impervious to any broad, coherent [...]
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