Social Engineering
03 Oct 1994 12:03By which, following Popper, I mostly mean the piece-meal design of institutions, and methods for trying to cope with their side-effects.
See also Democracy; Institutions and Organizations; Political Decision Making; Regulation
- Recommended:
- David Braybrooke and Charles E. Lindblom, A Strategy of Decision: Policy Evaluation as a Social Process
- R. A. Dahl and C. E. Lindblom, Politics, Economics and Welfare: Planning and Politico-Economic Systems Resolved into Basic Social Processes
- Mark A. R. Kleiman, When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment
- Karl Popper, The Poverty of Historicism
- Herbert Simon, The Sciences of the Artificial
- To read:
- Lucy Bernholz, Creating Phlanthropic Capital Markets: The Deliberate Evolution
- Robert Boguslaw, The New Utopians: A Study of System Design and Social Change [1965]
- Tom Douglas, Change, Intervention and Consequence: An Exploration of the Process of Intended Change
- Robert E. Goodin (ed.), The Theory of Institutional Design
- Neil Komesar, Imperfect Alternatives: Choosing Institutions in Law, Economics and Public Policy
- Jack H. Knott and Gary J. Miller, Reforming Bureaucracy: The Politics of Institutional Choice
- Rebecca Lemov, World As Laboratory: Experiments with Mice, Mazes, and Men [Review by Sarah Igo in American Scientist]
