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Title: Values and Public Policy by Henry J. Aaron, Thomas E. Mann, Timothy Taylor ISBN: 0-8157-0055-5 Publisher: The Brookings Institution Pub. Date: January, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95

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Summary: Think tanks bungle yet another topic
Comment: The role of values in public policy is certainly a topic worthy of discussion. Unfortunately, this book does not do a fine job of discussing the matter. It presents the typical think tank view of the world - rigidly ideological defenses of policy backed by a boatload of numbers. Values don't work well when forced into the defense of a viewpoint, and work even less when they are being quantified. The ideas of many of the writers, such as James Q. Wilson's notion of an underclass mentality, had been discredited even before they appeared in this work. For a serious discussion of the role of values in public policy, read a book by Rev. Jim Wallis or a like-minded soul, not by a bunch of think-tank technocrats.

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