Donald E. Campbell Livres

Focusing on workplace dynamics, this book explores how incentives influence individual decision-making and the effectiveness of coordination among employees. It delves into the mechanisms that drive motivation and examines the interplay between personal incentives and collective outcomes, providing insights into improving organizational performance.

Focusing on the principles of mechanism design, this book explores how to create systems and rules that lead to desirable outcomes in economic settings. It delves into welfare economics, analyzing how resources can be allocated efficiently to improve overall societal welfare. The text provides a comprehensive understanding of the interplay between individual incentives and collective outcomes, making it essential for those interested in economic theory and policy-making.

Working in the Dark focuses on the authors' understanding of an individual's pre-suicide state of mind, based on their work with many suicidal individuals, with special attention to those who attempted suicide while in treatment. The book explores how to listen to a suicidal individual's history, the nature of their primary relationships and their conscious and unconscious communications. Campbell and Hale address the searing emotional impact on relatives, friends and those involved with a person who tries to kill themself, by offering advice on the management of a suicide attempt and how to follow up in the aftermath. Establishing key concepts such as suicide fantasy and pre-suicidal states in adolescents, the book illustrates the pre-suicide state of mind through clinical vignettes, case studies, reflections from those in recovery and discussions with professionals. Working in the Dark will be of interest to social workers, probation officers, nurses, psychologists, counsellors, psychotherapists, psychoanalysts and doctors who work with those who have attempted suicide or are about to do so.