A STRATEGY FOR DECISION: A REVIEW,

Abstract

The value of the book being reviewed is in illuminating the rationale of decisionmaking as it occurs in the real world. In effect the authors are arguing, much as the classical economist has argued about the economic system, that things are more rational than they seem to be. The focus of the book is on what the authors call policymaking. They have set social action and choice in the context of a viable political or social community in which people talk with each other, exchange opinions, and criticize each other, and in which cognition, decision, and action are coped with and made more manageable by the division of labor and by a pragmatic concentration on how things can be made different.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1964
Accession Number
AD0607266

Entities

People

  • Paul Y. Hammond

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cognition
  • Communities
  • Economic Systems
  • Economics
  • Mental Processes
  • Populated Places
  • Psychological Phenomena And Processes

Fields of Study

  • Economics

Readers

  • Economics
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Theoretical Analysis.