Economics

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Jan 1, 1960

Economic planning and the military electronics industry.

A discussion of the role of the economist (1) in making overall evaluations of national economic conditions and corporate long-range planning activities, and (2) in using cost-sensitivity-analysis techniques to estimate the economic impact of alterna...

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Jan 1, 1959

The federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland: a case study in economic development.

A 1959 discussion of the economic adjustments and policy decisions necessary in succeeding years for the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. This paper describes special features of the federal economy, the possibility of sustaining this pace of ec...

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Jan 1, 1959

Gains from trade, materials supplies, and economic development.

An assessment of the feasibility of the objectives of U.S. economic assistance to underdeveloped countries from the standpoint of their connection with economic development, defined in terms of secularly rising national income. The connection between...

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Jan 1, 1959

Further comment on economics and operations research.

A defense of the criterion used in the author's article "Economics and Military Operations Research" (P-1250), published in The Review of Economics and Statistics, August, 1959....

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Jan 1, 1959

Review of Choh-ming Li's Economic development of Communist China (Berkeley, 1959).

A review of the book Economic Development of Communist China by Professor Li. The study is an economic analysis of the growth of the Chinese economy from 1952 to 1957 and ranges over almost every major aspect of Communist China's economy (namely, agr...

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Jan 1, 1959

The Economics of Parallel R and D Efforts: A Sequential-Decision Analysis

A mathematical model designed to help implement a major conclusion of RAND's continuing study of Air Force R&D policies.

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Jan 1, 1958

An Economic Development of Strategic Significance in Communist China.

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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Jan 1, 1958

Future prospects for Soviet economic aid.

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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Jan 1, 1958

Economics and Military Operations Research.

An examination of some of the relations between operations research and economics. Operations research is defined as the use of systematic quantitative analysis to aid in the making of military and management decisions. Economics is described as a ...

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Jan 1, 1958

Economic Replacement Policy

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.

Journal Article

Jan 1, 1957

Operations Research and National Planning, a Dissent

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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Jan 1, 1956

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Economic planning and the military electronics industry.

The federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland: a case study in economic development.

Gains from trade, materials supplies, and economic development.

Further comment on economics and operations research.

Review of Choh-ming Li's Economic development of Communist China (Berkeley, 1959).

The Economics of Parallel R and D Efforts: A Sequential-Decision Analysis

An Economic Development of Strategic Significance in Communist China.

Future prospects for Soviet economic aid.

Economics and Military Operations Research.

Economic Replacement Policy

Operations Research and National Planning, a Dissent

Dynamic Programming and its Application to Variational Problems in Mathematical Economics.

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