http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/1994/10/03#social-engineering By which, following Popper, I mostly mean the piece-meal design of <a href="institutions.html">institutions</a>, and methods for trying to cope with their side-effects. <P>See also <a href="democracy.html">Democracy</a>; <a href="institutions.html">Institutions and Organizations</a>; <a href="political-decision-making.html">Political Decision Making</a>; <a href="regulation.html">Regulation</a> <ul>Recommended: <li>David Braybrooke and Charles E. Lindblom, <cite>A Strategy of Decision: Policy Evaluation as a Social Process</cite> <li>R. A. Dahl and C. E. Lindblom, <cite>Politics, Economics and Welfare: Planning and Politico-Economic Systems Resolved into Basic Social Processes</cite> <li><a href="popper.html">Karl Popper</a>, <cite>The Poverty of Historicism</cite> <li><a href="simon.html">Herbert Simon</a>, <cite>The Sciences of the Artificial</cite> </ul> <ul>To read: <li>Lucy Bernholz, <cite>Creating Phlanthropic Capital Markets: The Deliberate Evolution</cite> [<a href="http://www.blueprintrd.com/book.htm">Author's book site</a>] <li>Robert Boguslaw, <cite>The New Utopians: A Study of System Design and Social Change</cite> [1965] <li>Tom Douglas, <cite>Change, Intervention and Consequence: An Exploration of the Process of Intended Change</cite> <li>Robert E. Goodin (ed.), <cite>The Theory of Institutional Design</cite> <li>Neil Komesar, <cite>Imperfect Alternatives: Choosing Institutions in Law, Economics and Public Policy</cite> [<a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/12655.ctl">Blurb</a>] <li>Jack H. Knott and Gary J. Miller, <cite>Reforming Bureaucracy: The Politics of Institutional Choice</cite> <li>Rebecca Lemov, <cite>World As Laboratory: Experiments with Mice, Mazes, and Men</cite> [<a href="http://www.americanscientist.org/template/BookReviewTypeDetail/assetid/50735">Review by Sarah Igo in <cite>American Scientist</cite></a>] </ul>