I’m disappointed only in how few titles are listed here. The impact RAND had on how we think about complex topics and the caliber of people they engaged was sim

I’m disappointed only in how few titles are listed here. The impact RAND had on how we think about complex topics and the caliber of people they engaged was simply amazing. So much of their work from their heyday in the 1950’s seems either comically obvious or comically arrogant now, not because they were clueless but because they so completely shaped how we think today that we can’t imagine being the first to ask those questions that way. [edit added] And yes, I do get there were a lot of projects RAND was involved in that people could reliably and reasonably dislike or find highly objectionable. For me, as important as that is, it doesn’t change the historical significance and importance (and interest) of the work RAND did, both good and bad.