2012-05-24T14:56:32Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/economic-planning.html http://www.rand.org/commentary/2011/11/29/RF.html Nov 29, 2011 Nov 29, 2011

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 Our only note of caution is about how far and how fast that growth can be delivered because the evidence we have is out of date and skewed towards the experience of just one country, write Jonathan Grant and Jon Sussex.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR838.html Jul 29, 2011 Jul 29, 2011

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.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR996.html Jun 1, 2011 Jun 1, 2011

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.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2011/06/01.html Jun 1, 2011 Jun 1, 2011

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.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1049.html May 17, 2011 May 17, 2011

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.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/rgs_dissertations/RGSD269.html Aug 27, 2010 Aug 27, 2010

<p>Studies price-setting behavior in the retail gasoline industry.</p>

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2009/05/29/PBT.html May 29, 2009 May 29, 2009

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.

http://www.rand.org/labor/centers/cfed.html Feb 19, 2009 Feb 19, 2009

<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">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 interests.</span></p>

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2008/10/22/RES.html Oct 22, 2008 Oct 22, 2008

<p>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.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB371.html Dec 31, 1993 Dec 31, 1993

Hui Wang's treatise on the transformation of the Chinese economy from a centrally planned to a market system.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P7285.html Dec 31, 1985 Dec 31, 1985

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--...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P4433.html Dec 31, 1969 Dec 31, 1969

Presents an economic model of the South Vietnamese economy.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P3600z17.html Dec 31, 1967 Dec 31, 1967

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...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM5444.html Dec 31, 1967 Dec 31, 1967

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.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P3316.html Dec 31, 1965 Dec 31, 1965

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...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P3206.html Dec 31, 1964 Dec 31, 1964

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...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P3255.html Dec 31, 1964 Dec 31, 1964

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...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P2926.html Dec 31, 1963 Dec 31, 1963

An examination of the economic aspects of defense planning. The author discusses resource management, program budgeting, cost-benefit analyses, and institutional arrangements.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM3532.html Dec 31, 1962 Dec 31, 1962

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...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P2718.html Dec 31, 1962 Dec 31, 1962

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....