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A summary and full text of a talk given at the 12th Annual Conference of the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C., January 31, 1958, and published in the transcript of that meeting. Such aspects of Middle East development are considered as (1) t...
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A discussion of the military implications of the Chinese Communist program, initiated toward the end of 1957, of building very small industrial enterprises to be located in towns, rural villages, or on collective farms. The small plant campaign could...
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An abreviated version of R-224, Economic Replacemant Policy (out of print), which presents a practical guide for equipment replacement based on the comparison of present-value costs.
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Charles Hitch presents a dissenting point of view to Russell Ackoff's address published in Operations Research (August 1957, p. 457-468).
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The Memorandum examines an experimental model of the relationship between political vulnerability and (1) economic aspirations, (2) the level of living, and (3) economic expectations.
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A study of the efficient use of transportation systems with an emphasis on the effects of traffic congestion.
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A critical review of the comment in The American Economic Review (1944-1945) on a Soviet press release which asserted that, contrary to the views previously held in the Soviet Union, the law of value operates in socialist economics....
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M.P.A., Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; B.A., L.L.D. (honorary), Occidental College
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Assistant Policy Analyst
Ph.D. candidate, Pardee RAND Graduate School; M.A. in economics, Hebrew University; B.A. in economics and philosophy, Hebrew University
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Director, Center for Latin American Social Policy; Economist; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Ph.D. in economics, University College London; M.Sc. in economics, University College London; B.A. in economics, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)
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Associate Economist
Ph.D. in economics, University of Maryland; B.S. in mathematics and economics, University of Chicago
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Research Assistant
B.S. in economics, Duke University; B.A. in political science, Duke University
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Assistant Policy Analyst at the RAND Corporation;
Doctoral Fellow at the Pardee RAND Graduate School
Ph.D. candidate (M.Phil.) in policy analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School; M.P.P in public policy, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS); B.A. in political science and public administration, Peking University
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Associate Economist; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Ph.D. in economics, University College London; M.S. in economics, University College London; B.A. in political economy, University of Siena
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Leader, Global Health Initiative, RAND Health; Director, RAND Palestine Initiative
Ph.D. and M.A. in economics, M.A. in economic history, University of Pennsylvania; B.A. in history, Williams College
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Assistant Policy Analyst
Ph.D. student in policy analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School; M.S. in economics, Florida State University; B.S. in economics and international affairs, Florida State University
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Associate Economist
B.S. in economics, Brigham Young University; Ph.D. in economics, University of California, Los Angeles
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Associate Economist; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Ph.D. in economics, Princeton University; M.A. in economics, Princeton University; M.A. in economics, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio; B.A. in economics, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio
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Associate Economist; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Ph.D. in health economics, Harvard University; M.P.A. in international development, Harvard University; B.Sc. in economics with economic history, London School of Economics
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