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Programs and Prognoses

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I. Is and ought, 355. — II. Program and prognosis, 357. — III. Program determined by prognosis, 359. — IV. Prognosis determined by program, 360; programs as social data, 361; selection and relevance, 361; models and concepts: the index number problem, 362; inadequacy of the means-ends schema, 364; implications for welfare economics, 367; ideologies, 368. — V. Interdependence between program and prognosis, 369; prophecies: cure through prognosis, 369; dangerous thought: destruction through prognosis, 370; harmony through prognosis, 372; speculation and oligopoly, 374. — VI. The task of the social sciences, 374. — VII. Summary, 376.

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  • Paul Streeten, 1954. "Programs and Prognoses," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 68(3), pages 355-376.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:qjecon:v:68:y:1954:i:3:p:355-376.
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    1. Gasper, D.R., 2007. "Problem- and policy-analysis for human development," ISS Working Papers - General Series 18743, International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (ISS), The Hague.
    2. Peter Schmidt, 2015. "Market vs. system failure as a rationale for EU regional policy? A critique from an evolutionary economic perspective," ERSA conference papers ersa15p842, European Regional Science Association.
    3. Peter Schmidt, 2018. "Market failure vs. system failure as a rationale for economic policy? A critique from an evolutionary perspective," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Springer, vol. 28(4), pages 785-803, September.

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