The Game Plan: Governance with Foresight

s of Books Received Michael Parrish, Indiana University Kahn, Herman. The Coming Boom. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1983. 237p. $8. The late Herman Kahn argues that we not only are recovering from our recent national malaise, but are on the verge of a major economic, political, and social boom. Kamarck, Andrew. Economics and the Real World. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1983. 165p. No price listed. A controversial critique of economics as is practiced today by a veteran observer. Kolb, Deborah. The Mediators. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 1983. 230p. $22.50. A study of what mediators actually do across agencies. Cases and settings suggest that mediator practice tends to follow predictable patterns in terms of roles, strategies, and relations with the disputing parties. Labor Management Relations in the Public Sector. New York: Garland. 1983. 395p. $32. A detailed annotated bibliography of the subject.