It argues, in various ways, that other normative bases, at least some of the time and on at least some occasions, are superior to economic efficiency as the metric of public policy choice. This volume attempts to show that public policy analysis can not be fashioned into the sort of scientific enterprise that many scholars and policy makers have hoped for. It argues that politics is an ineliminable and ultimately healthy dimension of public policy and that policy is better understood and made when this fact is accepted. These two volumes provide ways of thinking about the public significance of race in the contemporary United States. Each of the volumes referred to above should be available for purchase at the College Bookstore in the Mather Campus Center.
Different instructors have different views about the importance of what happens in class.
Some regard that as an optional portion of their courses. I do not. Accordingly, attendance is required and will be recorded. And, attendance means for the full 3 hour session. Individuals who miss classes or significant portions of classes will find their final grades reduced accordingly.