Systematic Thinking for Social Action

In January 1970 Alice M. Rivlin spoke to an audience at the University of California-Berkeley. The topic was developing a more rational approach to decisionmaking in government. If digital video, YouTube, and TED Talks had been inventions of the 1960s, Rivlin's talk would have been a viral hit. As it was, the resulting book, Systematic Thinking for Social Action , spent years on the Brookings Press bestseller list. Is is a very personal and conversational volume about the dawn of new ways of thi