This paper is an exploratory attempt to view the role that social experiments in general, and the income maintenance experiments and work/welfare demonstrations in particular, have played in the policy process through the lens provided by the knowledge ...

What don’t I mean by expenditure limitation? This paper is not about why governments should chose to limit spending. If governments wish to increase spending, that is obviously their prerogative. Moreover, they are, on the evidence, very good at it. Governments need no advice on doing what...

Que faut-il, à mon sens, exclure de la notion de limitation des dépenses ? Le présent document ne traitera pas des raisons pour lesquelles les gouvernements devraient décider de limiter les dépenses. S’ils souhaitent les accroître, ils en ont sans conteste la prérogative. De surcroît,...