Classic Cases

Meeting NYC'S Asphalt Needs (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1984

In Part A of this case, Henry Fulton, the head of New York City's Bureau of Highway Operations proposes that, as a cost saving measure, the city build and operate its own asphalt plant to produce some of the paving material needed each year to...

The Legal Services Corporation Under the Reagan Administration: The Reagan Board (B) (Abridged)

Publication Date: January 01, 1984

In 1981, the Reagan administration proposed the elimination of the federally-funded Legal Services Corporation (LSC), sparking an intense and ideologically bitter fight in Congress between pro- and anti-LSC forces. Part A gives a brief history...

Managing the Employment and Training Administration: Note on the Job Corps

Publication Date: January 01, 1983

This case examines the efforts of Albert Angrisani, the Reagan administration's choice to run the Department of Labor's Employment and Training administration, to reform the Job Corps program. It contrasts the view that Angrisani's proposals...

Prohibition: Supplement

Publication Date: January 01, 1983

On January 16, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, outlawing the manufacture or sale of alcohol, became law. Its enactment was the product of a vigorous lobbying effort, using methods strikingly similar to those currently...

Prohibition (B): Repeal

Publication Date: January 01, 1983

On January 16, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, outlawing the manufacture or sale of alcohol, became law. Its enactment was the product of a vigorous lobbying effort, using methods strikingly similar to those currently...

Prohibition (A): Enactment

Publication Date: January 01, 1983

On January 16, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, outlawing the manufacture or sale of alcohol, became law. Its enactment was the product of a vigorous lobbying effort, using methods strikingly similar to those currently...

Paul A. Samuelson

Publication Date: January 01, 1983

This case offers a third portrait, one of an American Keynesian, to supplement those on John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman. Outlining his historical, national, economic, and educational background, and his experience with applied economics,...

Wage and Price Controls (B): The Nixon Controls

Publication Date: January 01, 1983

When inflation reached 18 percent in 1980, a groundswell of public opinion clamored for mandatory wage and price controls. President Carter steadfastly refused, citing consensus among government leaders and economists that America's previous...

Wage and Price Controls (A): The Debate in 1980

Publication Date: January 01, 1983

When inflation reached 18 percent in 1980, a groundswell of public opinion clamored for mandatory wage and price controls. President Carter steadfastly refused, citing consensus among government leaders and economists that America's previous...

Wage and Price Controls (C): The Early History of Controls

Publication Date: January 01, 1983

When inflation reached 18 percent in 1980, a groundswell of public opinion clamored for mandatory wage and price controls. President Carter steadfastly refused, citing consensus among government leaders and economists that America's previous...

Fraud, Abuse and Waste at HEW

Publication Date: January 01, 1983

During her lunch break, Eileen Shanahan, HEW assistant secretary for public affairs, learns that the first annual report of HEW's inspector general, due to be published the next day, will claim that HEW "wastes seven billion dollars a year." The...

Savitz and the DOE (Abridged)

Publication Date: January 01, 1983

When Joseph Tribble, a political appointee, assumed his position as an Assistant Secretary at the Department of Energy, he soon found himself in conflict with his Deputy Assistant Secretary, Maxine Savitz. A highly respected career civil servant...