Book Review: The Price of Government: Getting the Results We Need in an Age of Permanent Fiscal Crisis
Abstract
writing flows and integrates the detail nicely. As such, this is a significant contribution to lit- erature in public policy and administration. THOMAS A. BRYER University of Southern California The Price of Government: Getting the Results We Need in an Age of Permanent Fiscal Crisis. By David Osborne and Peter Hutchinson. New York: Basic Books, 2004. 370 pp., $25.00 (hardback). In 1992, David Osborne and Ted Gabler published Reinventing Government, which by all accounts has not only become one of the best-selling books in academia in the 1990s but has also set forth in clear and easy-to-read language the underlying philosophy and manifesto for the "results oriented" movement in public administration. No doubt, faculty and most under- graduate and graduate students in public administration and public policy in the past decade have been exposed to the 10 principles of entrepreneurial government and how these princi- ples can transform the public sector when followed by public managers. Now, David Osborne has teamed up with Peter Hutchinson more than a decade after pub- lishing Reinventing Government, and they further build on the 1992 volume in terms of out- lining how to extend the entrepreneurial spirit in the public sector. However,