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Part I: Introduction -- Preview the Canadian Salmon Fishery -- What is policy analysis? -- Toward professional ethics -- Part II: Conceptual foundations -- Efficiency and the idealized competitive model -- Rationales for public policy: market failures -- Rationales for public policy: other limitations of the competitive framework -- Rationales for public policy: distributional and other goals -- Limits to public intervention: government failures -- Correcting market and government failures: generic policies --- Part III: Doing policy analysis -- Landing on your feet: how to confront policy problems -- Goals/alternatives matrices: some examples from CBO studies -- Benefit-cost analysis -- Thinking strategically about adoption and implementation -- Part IV: Doing policy analysis in organizational settings -- Benefit-costs analysis in a bureaucratic setting: the strategic petroleum reserve -- When statistics count: revisiting the lead standard for gasoline -- When statistics count: revisiting the lead standard for gasoline -- Part V: Conclusion -- Doing well and doing good