SOME ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF FISSIONABLE MATERIAL,

Abstract

The determination of an optimum program for the production, allocation, and use of fissionable material involves a number of economic suboptimizations, once important political and military decision have been made. The economic optimization involves other suboptimizations in turn, one for the AEC, another for the DOD, and conceivably for individual Services and campaigns. Linear programming provides a means of handling a number of these small optimizations and the institution of shadow prices permits a decentralized method of solution. Despite the secrecy that surrounds it, fissionable material is preeminently an economic good, and economists with the necessary clearances should be capable of an important contribution to national defense. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 25, 1953
Accession Number
AD0604287

Entities

People

  • Stephen Enke

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Clearances
  • Computer Programming
  • Fissionable Materials
  • Linear Programming
  • Materials
  • Mathematical Programming
  • National Security
  • Optimization
  • Production

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Industrial Economics
  • Nuclear and Radiation Engineering.