Economic planning is the process policymakers undertake to ensure the generation, sharing, and consumption of wealth. RAND has examined the economic planning at local and national levels, the economic cycles that result, and the political issues surrounding the economic planning process.
COMMENTARY
Publicly funded R&D investment is a coherent policy to support long term economic growth. Our only note of caution is about how far and how fast that growth can be delivered because the evidence we have is out of date and skewed towards the experience of just one country, write Jonathan Grant and Jon Sussex.
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An innovative econometric approach developed by RAND Europe allows researchers to estimate crime rates and the number of police officers needed to control crime in Britain, and offers local governments the opportunity to consider how to save money on policing while still maintaining public safety.
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Up to 18 percent of Hawaii's economy can be linked to spending by the U.S. Department of Defense — an average of $6.5 billion per year during fiscal years 2007-2009. Of that, $4.1 billion was for personnel and $2.4 billion for the purchase of goods and services in Hawaii.
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Up to 18 percent of Hawaii's economy can be linked to spending by the U.S. Department of Defense — an average of $6.5 billion per year during fiscal years 2007-2009. Of that, $4.1 billion was for personnel and $2.4 billion for the purchase of goods and services in Hawaii.
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To inform debate on a new transportation bill being considered, an analysis of literature on the effects of highway infrastructure spending on the economy offers principles for reforming federal policy and programs, as well as ideas for future research.
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Studies price-setting behavior in the retail gasoline industry.
COMMENTARY
What Pittsburgh attraction provides $3 of economic output for every public dollar invested? The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. If you find this factoid unlikely, it is because the research that discovered it received an astounding lack of attention, write Susan Everingham and Sally Sleeper.
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Ongoing research at the Center for Financial and Economic Decision Making (CFED) addresses the process of financial decision making over the life-cycle, in particular assessing how people collect information; how they think about risks, and probabilities; and how well they match their decisions to their preferences and…
COMMENTARY
If the nation is to emerge from a recession in a position of strength, we should chart our course carefully now. The government bailout of the banking sector could yield a substantial payout one day—and now is the time to earmark that money for our knowledge sector, writes Jonathan Grant.
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Hui Wang's treatise on the transformation of the Chinese economy from a centrally planned to a market system.
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In 1968, Hungary introduced a series of reforms to the central planning system. The goal was to make the economy more efficient by placing decisionmaking authority at the level that has the most information on production and marketing possibilities--...
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Presents an economic model of the South Vietnamese economy.
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Several articles in this issue discuss how economic planning is hampered by shortages of computers, desk calculators and abacuses, repairmen, and mathematical economists, by lack of coordination, and by the data problem. Economists and mathematicians...
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An analysis of the costs and planning and operating requirements for establishing temporary villages for South Vietnamese refugees while their home villages are being secured for GVN control.
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Paper prepared for the Universities-National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on The Economics of Defense to be held at the University of Chicago, April 15-16, 1966. The author considers the influence of organizational structure on planning in...
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A discussion, based on Treml's analysis, of Soviet difficulty in applying input-output techniques to economic planning, and of the wider factors that inhibit mathematical economic planning in the Soviet Union. The main difficulties lie in a dichotom...
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Comments on current Indian economic planning and development prepared for [Capital] Magazine in Calcutta, India. The author notes that the recent fighting with Pakistan has drastically changed the environment of development planning. He suggests se...
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An examination of the economic aspects of defense planning. The author discusses resource management, program budgeting, cost-benefit analyses, and institutional arrangements.
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A discussion of the increasing interest shown by the USSR in the application of tools of mathematical economics to Soviet planning and economic organization. This interest constitutes a radical shift from the attitude of bitter hostility characterist...
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A consideration of the possible use of operational gaming, or simulation involving human players, to examine an economy as a whole. In this paper, gaming techniques are discussed entirely in terms of their applications to national economic planning....
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