Elizabeth Popp Berman is Director and Richard H. Price Professor of Organizational Studies at the University of Michigan and the author of Creating the Market University: How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine (Princeton).
Indispensable. Deeply researched and powerfully argued, it is easily one of the most important studies of American governance in many years. ---Simon Torracinta, Boston Review It turns out this kind of thinking - what Berman calls 'the economic style of reasoning' - has taken over not just environmental policy but the entire US policy bureaucracy, to dismal results. It's as much something Democrats have done to themselves as anything forced by the right. One always enjoys having one's priors validated by scholars of much greater distinction than oneself, so I was delighted to read the book. ---David Roberts, Volts