Unforeseen consequences and pathological self‐reinforcement
Why cities decline
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6251442 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anthony Woodlief (University of Michigan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 13-34 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-3811 • E-ISSN: 1933-8007 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08913819808443481 |
| OpenAlex | W1966531946 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 25 |
Peter Salins's The Ecology of Housing Destruction and Salins's co‐authored work with Gerald Mildner, Scarcity by Design, provide fascinating evidence of the unintentionally harmful effects of urban policies, and their role as catalysts for further harmful policies designed to ameliorate previous harms. The result is a web of counterproductive regulations confronting bewildered policymakers and frustrated citizens. In his The Federal Government and Urban Housing, on the other hand, R. Allen Hays not only misses the existence of these complex policy dynamics, but fails to assess accurately the consequences of the housing policies he favors. His work does, however, offer useful insights into the nature of policy decisions
Economic growth · Economics · Government (linguistics · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Public economics · Public policy · Scarcity · Work (physics · Engineering · Housing Market and Economics
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Models of man, social and rational
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The evolution of cooperation
Evolution and the Theory of Games
The Logic of Collective Action
Self-generating growth in public programs
The Political Process
Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics
Social Approval, Values, and AFDC
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The Path-Dependent City
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Approaches to the State
Nonincremental Policy Making
Threshold Models of Collective Behavior
| Highly cited | No |
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