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This article argues that, in our rapidly changing, increasingly complex world, government matters. It always has and arguably now matters more than ever largely because of the context within we live - a context in which more than two decades of government bashing have taken their toll on pride and capacity in public service, leaving an emasculated public sector to deal with the immense challenges of today's world. To make this argument the historical shifts of perspective on government and the marketplace are described along with the changes occurring so rapidly in our world. Second, the impact of the recent shift to a pro-marketplace bias and the impacts of globalization, interdependence and increased tribalism on governments and on public administration are described. Finally, some key challenges facing public administration as a result of these changes are discussed

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This article argues that, in our raplidly changing, increasingly complex world, government matters. It always has and arguably now matters more than ever largely because of the context within we live - a context in which more than two decades of government bashing have taken their toll on pride and capacity in public service, leaving an emasucilated public sector to deal with the immense challeges of today's world. To make this argument the historical shifts of perspective on government and the marketplace are described along with the changes occuring so rapidly in our world. Second, the impact of the recent shift to a pro-marketplace bias and the impacts of globalization, interdependence and increased tribalism on governments and on public administration are described. Finally, some key challenges facing public administration as a result of these changes are discussed.

This article argues that, in our rapidly changing, increasingly complex worId, govemment matters. It always has and arguably now matters more than ever largely because of the context within which we live — a context in which more than two decades of govemment bashing have taken their toll on pride and capacity in public service, leaving an emusculaled public actor to deal with the immense challenges of today's world. To make this argument the historical shifts of perspecitve on government and the marketplace are describe along with the changes occurring so rapidly in our world. Second, the impact of the recent shift to a pro-marketplace bias and the impacts of globalization. interdependence and increased tribulism on governments and on public administration are described. Finally, some key challenges facing public administration as a result of these changes are discussed.

Energy has recently emerged as a concern of public policy having great importance. The problem is that neither private nor federal decisionmakers have experiences in the formation of such policy. A number of joint private-public projects have been conducted; however, government is no longer the ultimate consumer of energy programs, but is seeking to move the private sector closer to ultimately profitable positions at a more rapid rate. Public-private relations need to be organized to facilitate implementation & commercialization efforts. Further research is needed to clarify these issues. W. H. Stoddard.

Discrimination in the labor market has received considerable attention in the last two decades. Racial aspects have been a primary concern, but the question of discrimina tion against females has assumed an increasing importance. Despite statements of alleged discrimination against women, there is a paucity of empirical evidence. For the most part, the evidence cited—including that in governmental studies—is based upon comparisons of gross earnings by sex obtained from census studies or studies of particular industries. The pur pose of this study is to isolate pure measures of wage dis crimination on the basis of sex, within narrowly defined occupations. The measures are pure in that factors other than sex, to which wage differentials might be attributed, are taken into account. The results of the analysis of wages in four narrowly defined occupations clearly suggest that wage dis crimination has a sex dimension. A sex variable is con sistently powerful in explaining wage dispersion. Moreover, the estimated sex differentials generally exceed those related to color, often by considerable amounts. This finding poses obvious theoretical questions. If the wage for labor is deter mined under free market conditions, the continued existence of discrimination seems implausible in the absence of real differ ences in productivity among sex and color groups. This suggests that there are differences in the supply and demand curves relating to different groups of labor which arise out of subjective, rather than objective, factors.