While excellent newsletters on specific themes within public policy already exist, this thought letter is about frameworks, mental models, and key ideas that will hopefully help you think about any public policy problem in imaginative ways. If this post was forwarded to you and you liked it, consider subscribing. It’s free. If you enjoy what’s written here, you will also like our book, Missing in Action: Why You Should Care About Public Policy. [Special Edition] Frameworks to Understand Public PolicyA compilation of frameworks that have featured in this thought-letter
We resume regular programming starting October 27. Meanwhile, here’s a special edition that you might enjoy. On the lines of our policyWTF Long List, this edition is our Frameworks Long List. Over four years of writing this thought-letter, we have compiled quite a few frameworks that can help us analyse public policy issues. We believe in the power of frameworks to zoom in on the most important aspects of complicated public policy issues. They are helpful in sense-making and should be thought of as a starting point to reflect on public policy issues rather than definitive solutions. Some of these frameworks are our own creations, but most are credited to leading thinkers of public policy, politics, and philosophy. For ease of reading, we’ve put these 80+ frameworks into a few categories. Click through on any of them and hopefully, you’ll discover a new frame to observe the world. Don’t forget to bookmark this edition! Thanks for reading Anticipating the Unintended! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support our work. Public Policy
Political ThinkingPublic FinanceForeign Policy, Defence and Geopolitics
SocietyUniverseSince we are talking frameworks, I must mention this iconic short story, which I first heard from Ameya Naik. It highlights the usefulness and limitations of models and frameworks as tools for thinking.
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