In our book, we make the point (first developed by Tom Schelling) that policymakers and voters tend to respond more to (1) identifiable victims (e.g., the girl, Jessica McClure, who fell in the well, or workers trapped in a mine) even though helping them comes at a very high cost per victim, than to (2) […]
Author Archive | Peter Schuck
Avoiding Bad Bets, Removing Bad Apples
My apologies. I posted this a few days ago, but with the comments on my initial posting, so here it is again. I will follow immediately with another one from this morning that I also mis-located. My next research bearing on bad apples is to look at the NYC system to see what happens to […]