Books by Charles E. Lindblom

An agenda of basic questions about the impact of social science and research on real life problems, and how social scientists are often crippled by a misunderstanding of their own trade.

An inquiry into why we are prevented from solving social problems and a contention that learned incompetence, through parents, teachers, advertising and political rhetoric, is what prevents us. The route to better problem-solving is presented as being through a competition of ideas.