Learning Lessons by Rashi Fein
Rashi Fein's Learning Lessons is a book about the policy process. It discusses the considerations advisers have in mind as they develop and select policy alternatives, the ways each of us might want to think about making decisions, and the lessons we should remember in order to minimize avoidable errors. In writing about his experiences in government, the classroom, and private life, Fein offers insights that apply to people responsible for decisions in many kinds of institutions, at all levels of responsibility.
Alan B. Cohen, executive director at Boston University Health Policy Institute views Learning Lessons as a fascinating book about how economics can and does inform policymaking. "It is no accident that policymaking has been likened to sausage making in that it is better not to see either one being made. However, in this book the distinguished scholar and policy adviser, Rashi Fein, offers an eyewitness account of key health and social policy decisions of the past half-century that makes the policy process more comprehensible and even palatable to the reader….,"
Fein's anecdotes and the situations he describes are drawn from over fifty years of experience in the policy arena. They are not intended to represent either a rounded theory about public administration or a comprehensive treatment of important components of political science.
Fein is professor of the economics of medicine emeritus at Harvard Medical School. He has been the recipient of the John M. Russell Medial for the Advancement of Knowledge in Medicine and the Martin E. Rehfuss medal for Distinguished Service to Medicine. He is also the author of numerous books.
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