The Art of Public Strategy: Mobilizing Power and Knowledge for the Common Good

by Geoff Mulgan and Dr Geoff Mulgan

Book Overview

The strategies adopted by governments and public officials can have dramatic effects on peoples' lives. The best ones can transform economic laggards into trailblazers, eliminate diseases, or sharply cut crime. Strategic failures can result in highly visible disasters, like the shrinking of the Russian economy in the 1990s, or the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005.

This book is about how strategies take shape, and how money,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199289646
• ISBN13: 9780199289646
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"