The demand revelation process has been called a new and superior process for making social choices and holds some promise of creating an intellectual revolution

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This book places economic debates in their historical context and outlines how economic ideas have influenced swings in policy.

Aaron Wildavsky, along with Mary Douglas, identified what they called grid-group theory. Wildavsky began calling this "cultural theory," and applied it to an as