public agencies and private institutions

"The Reagan Experiment"
 
Urban Institute, 2100 M St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037. 600 pp. $29.95 cloth,
$12.95 paper.
Editors: John L. Palmer and Isabel V. Sawhill

President Reagan took office deter- mined to chart a "fundamentally dif- ferent [domestic] course" for the United States. But 28 specialists commissioned the Urban Institute say that budget cuts and policy changes during the first 18 months of Reagan's tenure...