Stefanie Haeffele is the Deputy Director of Academic and Student Programs and a senior fellow for the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Abigail Hall is Assistant Professor in Economics at the University of Tampa in Florida and a Research Fellow with the Independent Institute, a non-partisan research and educational think tank based in Oakland, California. Adam Millsap is the Assistant Director of the L. Charles Hilton Jr. Center for the Study of Economic Prosperity and Individual Opportunity at Florida State University.
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Foreword, Boudreaux / 1. Introduction, Haeffele, Hall, and Millsap / 2. Who Plans? Jane Jacobs' Hayekian Critique of Urban Planning, Gray / 3. The Knowledge Problem and Education Finance, Crouch / 4. Centralization of the Child Welfare Systems and the Knowledge Problem, McCray / 5. The Patient Protection and the Affordable Care Act: That Which is Seen and That Which is Unseen, Shupe / 6. An Analysis of Agent Decisions and Institutional Effects in Healthcare, Famodimu / 7. How Reputational Feedback Can Mitigate the Knowledge Problem: Lessons Learned from the U.S., Galata-Bickell / 8. The Knowledge Problem in International Entity Level Taxation, Michel / 9. De-risking and the Knowledge Problem: The Unseen Consequences of Financial Sanctions, Gjoza /10. Trade Openness, Information, Feedback, and Domestic Economic Regulation, Ruhland / 11. Was it Worth It? The Effects of ODA, NGOs, and Time on Local Politics in the Haitian State, DeMattee
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Informing Public Policy is an excellent introduction to the insights that market process theory brings to public policy analysis. By utilizing only junior scholars, the editors not only demonstrate the usefulness of market process theory to practitioners, but also scholars. -- Joshua C. Hall, Professor of Economics, West Virginia University This volume shows how effective public policy can be made in light of the fact that all relevant information can never be available to inform policy makers. The insights in this book will be valuable to academics and practitioners who are interested in improving the process of making public policy. -- Randall G. Holcombe, DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics, Florida State University