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Article: The new public management.
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- Government Finance Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 1999
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1999 Government Finance Officers Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Editor's note: This article originally appeared in the May/June 1998 issue of Public Administration Review and is reprinted and adapted with permission.
Two Parables
A traveler returns from a three-day stopover in India and entertains his friends with stories he heard there. "Aha!" cries one of them, a publisher. "Your stories will make a fine book." "I was there only three days," the traveler protests. "It doesn't matter!" asserts the publisher. "Readers won't care." "That may be," says the traveler, "but the book's title must clearly indicate that I spent only three days in India." "Of course!" agrees the publisher. When the book appears, it is duly ...