"This new text provides a unique set of insights into the disparate elements required to understand and apply probabilistic design methods and to undertake reliability assessments for coastal and hydraulic engineering schemes. The concepts are well explained for readers with an engineering background, making the sometimes complex theory accessible."—Andrew Chadwick, Maritime Engineering

• List of contributors, Acknowledgements, Introduction, PART I Roundtable on American economics, PART II Pioneers of American policy analysis, PART III Contributions to theory and measurement, PART IV Institutional economics, PART V American originals, PART VI American economists and the world, Index