...Judy L. Klein In October 1956 the RAND Corporation established the Logistics Systems Laboratory (LSL), with the goal of using simulation to translate the broad findings of normative microeconomics into detailed, implementable procedures for US Air Force operations. The laboratory was housed...

... extended, particularly at the RAND Corporation. Working on such matters, Kenneth Arrow took a keen interest in testing as a paradigm for information gathering in economic decision-making and in encouraging investment in R&D as an information-gathering exercise essential to making informed choices...

... on his research carried out at that time at the RAND Corporation and the Carnegie Institute of Technology. We then examine the genealogy of the notion of “technological paradigm” developed in the 1980s and show its links with the contributions to the old economics of science, a criticism of the linear...

... is also cherished by mainstream economists who consider it to be a powerful defense of the maximization principle in the theory of the firm. Our examination of the early intellectual life of Alchian shows that it was his involvement in military systems analysis at the RAND Corporation that led him...

... revolutions from two different traditions: the systems analysis perspective of the RAND Corporation and the rational choice analysis from the public choice school of Virginia. We situate their views with reference to explanations offered by other social scientists, especially modernization and relative...

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... and noteworthy. I will argue that Lerner’s paper repre- sents one of the first examples of twentieth-century economic thinking applied to bureaucracy. A broader, more sustained effort by economists would emerge several decades later. There is direct evidence that the RAND Corporation, a California defense...

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... economists, who focus on anomalies but use experimental methods that admit what Sidney Siegel, when he was alive, eschewed. Judy Klein examines an instance of genuine and successful collabora- tion between psychologists and economists in the Logistic Systems Labo- ratory at the RAND Corporation...

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... the RAND Corporation to the federal bureaucracy. This story has been told before, but nowhere else more skillfully, especially when read in the book's wider context. Chapter 5, on social policy, adroitly shows how, in the 1960s, the Great Society programs were originally rooted in an ethic of universalism...