Alain C. Enthoven
Autor de How Much is Enough?: Shaping the Defense Program 1961-1969
Sobre El Autor
Alain C. Enthoven is a Senior Fellow, Center for Health Policy, Institute for International Studies, and the Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management, Emeritus, in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University
Obras de Alain C. Enthoven
Toward a 21st Century Health System: The Contributions and Promise of Prepaid Group Practice (J-B Public Health/Health… (2004) 9 copias
Theory and Practice of Managed Competition in Health Care Finance (Professor Dr F De Vries Lectures in Economics) (1988) 8 copias
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 7
- Miembros
- 55
- Popularidad
- #295,340
- Valoración
- 4.5
- Reseñas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 16
For anyone interested in recent history or contemporary politics, there are fascinating insights about the establishment of the United States as a superpower, the evolution of nuclear strategy, the role of NATO and the management of the Vietnam War.
The McNamara era was marked by tension between the military and his civilian advisers. The authors, key civilian advisers, argue that the Defense Secretary cannot rely on military advice being unbiased, and he needs an independent source of civilian advice if he wants to make better decisions. This attitude is scattered throughout the book, but dealt with in Chapter 3 in particular. This caused me to suck on my teeth. I was a civilian manager working in the Australian Department of Defence. While some of this had elements of truth, it underplayed the importance of military expertise (military officers have a level of knowledge on how war is fought that cannot be easily picked up by the civilian analyst) and the attitudes promote a culture of confrontation rather cooperation (aggravating the attitudes the authors complain about).… (más)