ABSTRACT
Books can be written linearly, straight-on according to plan, with one topic following another in orderly sequence. Books may also be written in curvilinear fashion, much like fitting together the parts of a puzzle except that all the pieces are not available at the beginning but only as one goes along, and the final shape is made up by the pieces instead of being fit into a predetermined form. Curvilinear is also more correct; it does not confuse the appearance of a scientific article with the ways in which the mind works or the work was actually carried out. Students at the Graduate School of Public Policy in Berkeley were offered imaginary prizes for what it turned out were nonexistent policies. Most discussions of public policy are organized around the clash between markets and politics. Resources versus objectives was easier because there were always more examples of misaligning ends and means.
