Policy Analysis and Economics : Developments, Tensions, Prospects

Contributing Authors -- Preface -- 1 Economists as Policy Analysts: Historical Overview -- 2 Continuing Controversies in Policy Analysis -- 3 Beyond Efficiency: Economics and Distributional Analysis -- 4 Beyond Self-Interest -- 5 Economic Theories of Decision Making Under Uncertainty: Implications for Policy Analysis -- 6 The New Institutional Economics: Implications for Policy Analysis -- 7 Macroeconomics and Macroeconomists as Instruments of Policy -- 8 The New Trade Theory: Implications for Policy Analysis -- 9 Policy Research: A Withering Branch of Economics?.