Economic Policy Analysis Playbook - 2nd edition

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Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• About the Author
• How to Navigate This Book
• I. Setting the Field: Foundations of Economic Policy Analysis
  • Chapter 1: Introductions to Economic Policy Analysis
  • Chapter 2: Why and How Governments Shape the Economy
• II. The Offensive Playbook: Strategies for Policy Incentives
  
  • Chapter 3: Regulation and Command and Control Policies
  • Chapter 4: Market Based Instruments
  • Chapter 5: Behavioural Insights and Moral Suasion
• III. The Defensive Playbook: Tactics for Policy Analysis
  
  • Chapter 6: Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • Chapter 7: Multi-Criteria Analysis
  • Chapter 8: Economic Impact Assessment
  • Chapter 9: Economic Policy Evaluation Techniques
  • Chapter 10: Risk and Rewards in Economic Policy Analysis
• IV. The Game Plan for Economic Policy Analysis in the Real World
  
  • Chapter 11: Game Plans for Economic Policy Analysis
  • Chapter 12: Future Opportunities and Emerging Challenges
• Glossary

About the Book

Economic Policy Analysis Playbook shows how policy actually works—moving beyond theory to a practical “playbook” for designing and evaluating decisions. Blending incentives, analytical tools, and global cases, it equips readers to test, challenge, and defend policy choices in complex real-world contexts.

About the Contributors

Author

Dr. Leonie Pearson is an ecological economist who has spent over two decades refusing to let economics be boring. She has worked across Australia, Southeast Asia, the UK, and China, advising governments, securing over $60 million in research funding, and somehow managing to make cost-benefit analysis genuinely compelling in a classroom. In 2025, the Lao PDR Government awarded her the Friendship Cross for her contributions to rural development policy — proof that good economics, done well, actually changes lives.

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