Economic development, research and development, policy making: some converging views
ResearchPublished 1960
ResearchPublished 1960
An examination of the convergence between the views of Albert Hirschman on economic development, Burton Klein and William Meckling on technological research and development, and Charles Lindblom on policymaking in general. These three independent lines of work appear to challenge, in remarkably similar ways, some widely accepted generalizations about what is variously described in the literature as the process of problem solving and decisionmaking.
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