The choice isn’t, "Rules or no rules?" The choice is, "Rules made and enforced by voluntary contractual arrangements, or rules made and enforced by coercive agencies that can’t go out of business?" Mises Daily: Monday, December 28, 2009 by Robert P. Murphy.
I review four areas of the social sciences in: Shadow Dancing on the Grave of Hope.
In education, the favored programs, or set of programs is a combination of Direct Instruction, Precision Teaching, Programmed Instruction, Personalized System of Instruction and Behavior Modification. Direct Instruction, by itself, has been shown to be vastly superior to any of the programs used in public education.
In psychotherapy, the exemplar program is by Azrin and Belasel, which so far as I can determine, has not even been replicated, much less used.
In drug and alcohol rehabilitation, exemplar programs are again based on those pioneered by Azrin and his associates, these programs are rarely used, but have at least been replicated.
In criminal rehabilitation, the program by Larson was chosen, although there are several others which are similar. Again, these programs are rarely used.
The reason that exemplary programs are not used is simple. The overwhelming percentage of programs are run under the aegis of government agencies and success is irrelevant. Cherchez les Contingencies.
Cheerio and ttfn,
Grant Coulson
December 31, 2009 at 11:32 pm |
“Cherchez les contingencies” — I love it. Have you trademarked it;-)