Eightfold Path + Slides
According to Bardach, this is the very first thing you must do before building alternatives.
What is define the problem?
This country‘s government just collapsed and had protests over a social media ban
What is Nepal?
Had 6 wisdom teeth instead of 4
Who is Karis?
This person would standardize charging.
This type of analysis compares the monetary value of benefits with the monetary value of costs.
What is Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA)?
Bardach suggests not creating new metrics when existing ones already work. This principle is summed up in the phrase:
What is “Don’t reinvent the wheel”
This person shared operational details about airstrikes in Yemen in a leaked group chat in March 2025.
Who is Pete Hegseth?
Got stung twice by the same sting ray at the same beach
Who is Maria?
This person would go on Love Island and become America’s sweetheart.
Who is Clarissa?
Unlike CBA, this method is used when benefits cannot easily be monetized and instead focuses on comparing outcomes achieved per dollar spent.
What is Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (CEA)?
In projecting outcomes, Bardach stresses this type of reasoning, comparing the relative gains and losses of different options.
What is trade-off analysis?
He slapped who?!
Chris Rock
Will violently throw up if given an orange
Who is Chloe?
This person would go on Amazing Race.
Who Is Brazile?
In a CBA, if the total benefits outweigh the total costs, this ratio will be greater than one.
What is the Benefit-Cost Ratio?
Our first social is on this date
When is September 20th?
In January 2025, this country officially joined BRICS, expanding the group’s influence.
Saudi Arabia
Started their new year off by falling on the dance floor of a party they weren’t invited to
Who is Sofia?
This duo would go on Hell’s Kitchen
Who are Maddon and Alexander?
CEA is especially useful in this policy area, where outcomes like “lives saved” or “disease cases prevented” are hard to put a dollar value on.
What is public health?
This is where our weekly meetings are
What is SOCS 60?
This artist’s tour tickets are selling for a MILLION 😭
Who is Arianka?
This person was in Oprah magazine as a child.
Who is Ashlyn?
This person would un-invent social media.
Who is Jacqueline?
A key limitation of CBA is its difficulty in monetizing this type of impact, which includes equity, fairness, and community trust.
What are intangible (or non-market) values?