Knowledge And Decisions is about how bureaucrats are actually decent at their job, but the incentives are tuned towards entirely different goals than the nominal objective of the organization and there are no repercussions for failing to meet the nominal goes. It also goes into intellectuals and how they are entirely disconnected from reality.
If you pick up any of his books on race, you'll get a fun deluge of statistics. You only really read one of them though because he rehashes the same stuff with more data. He probably had contracts to publish regularly, and updating the race book seems to have been his go to when he didn't know what to write.
They don't all have the exact same data and there is slightly different focus/spin in each, but there is heavy overlap and the broad arguments are the same. Unless you are a hardcore data nerd, pick up whichever sounds the most interesting.
He is but mainly retired. He is in his early 90s but his books should be required reading.
That one is in my stack to read.
Knowledge And Decisions is about how bureaucrats are actually decent at their job, but the incentives are tuned towards entirely different goals than the nominal objective of the organization and there are no repercussions for failing to meet the nominal goes. It also goes into intellectuals and how they are entirely disconnected from reality.
If you pick up any of his books on race, you'll get a fun deluge of statistics. You only really read one of them though because he rehashes the same stuff with more data. He probably had contracts to publish regularly, and updating the race book seems to have been his go to when he didn't know what to write.
They don't all have the exact same data and there is slightly different focus/spin in each, but there is heavy overlap and the broad arguments are the same. Unless you are a hardcore data nerd, pick up whichever sounds the most interesting.