Our military budgets.

Protecting Our Military Space Systems

OVER THE LAST 25 years the United States has become increasingly dependent on space-based systems to support its military forces, and this trend is likely to continue for some time. Satellite systems have become an integral part of nuclear deterrence by providing strategic warning of an attack, tactical warning of missile launches, reliable communications between command authorities and nuclear...

Quantifying Our Ignorance: Stochastic Forecasts of Population and Public Budgets

Our Health , Our Care , Our Say - what could the NHS learn from individual budgets and direct payments ?

While many of these are new challenges to the NHS, they are longstanding issues in social care (which has often learned the hard way about what works and what does not work when tackling such issues). Although a number of different approaches have been developed over time, two of the Against this background, this short discussion paper seeks to summarise the nature and impact of direct payments...

Repellents and the military: our first line of defense.

Screening Budgets

How should an organization’s center allocate resources units under its control which are better informed? Even with conscientious productivity reviews, important information will remain asymmetrically held. If units value their own expenditures more than those of their peers, they will seek excess budgets and expenditures. Fortunately, budget authorities can infer productivities from units’ exp...