... in the training simulation facilities that had been recently vacated by psychologists working at the RAND Systems Research Laboratory. Economists at the LSL interwove their marginal cost-benefit analysis with the psychologists' focus on process, adaptation, and group behavior. Over a decade, economists...

...) practice. But where to turn? The answer was provided by psychologists at RAND, working, as they did from 1951 to 1956, in their own laboratory, the Systems Research Laboratory, where there were no economists. In this laboratory, human behavior was the focus and held instructive lessons...

... was submitted by one of its leading psychologists for a project to be funded in which psychologists would study how groups of Air Force personnel behave under stress. The proposal was accepted and resulted in the establishment in 1952 of the RAND Systems Research Laboratory, a unit replete...

... RM-260-1 . www.rand.org/pubs.html . Alchian A. A. 1952 . “ The Chef, Gourmet, and Gourmand .” RAND Research Memorandum RM-798-PR . www.rand.org/pubs.html . Alchian Armen A. Kessel Reuben A. . 1954 . “ A Proper Role of Systems Analysis .” RAND...

... 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...

... . Balinski Michel . 1959 . “ An Algorithm for Finding All Vertices of Convex Polyhedral Sets .” PhD diss. , Princeton University . Collins Martin J. 2002 . Cold War Laboratory: RAND, the Air Force, and the American State, 1945-1950 . Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press...

... a set of institutions (e.g., Princeton, RAND, Office of Naval Research, Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, etc.) and in some competition with other programs for resources and influence. Early Development and Diffusion...

... history of, 199 Probability distortion, 7 logistics department, 203–6 Project for Research and simulations, use of, 8, 206, 208 Development (RAND). See System Training Program, 212, RAND (Project for Research 236...

... . Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 computers information technology economics econometrics applied economics software simulation References Adelman I. n.d. “ The Research for the Paper on the Dynamics of the Klein-Goldberger Model .” web.stanford.edu/~clint/tmp...

...- perimentation (not necessarily in a game-theoretic framework), but it came largely from the social psychologists resident in that community-including Bush, Bavelas, Guetzkow, and my- self, the Systems Research Lab at RAND (Kennedy, Chapman, and Newell), and others...

... Helmer was drawn into mathe- matics-based work for the National Defense Research Council under the direction of John Williams, and in 1946, when Williams became one of the founding fathers of RAND Corporation, Helmer joined him there. Helmer stayed at RAND till 1968. The interaction between Helmer...

... , edited by Fagen M. D. . Muray Hill, NJ : Bell Telephone Laboratories . Bellman Richard . 1956 . Dynamic Programming and Its Application to Variational Problems in Mathematical Economics . Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation . Bellman Richard Kalaba...

... Bernard . 1949 . Strategy as a Science . World Politics 1 ( July ): 467 – 88 . Digby James . 1989 . Operations Research and Systems Analysis at RAND, 1948–1967 . RAND N-2936-RC ( April ). Digby James . 1990 . Strategic Thought at RAND, 1948–1963 . RAND N-3096-RC ( June...

... to the game-theoretic cause. Olaf Helmer, a German refugee with Ph.D.s in mathematics and logic, worked on operations research during the war and went to RAND soon thereafter, bringing with him a new-found enthusiasm for the theory of games. Abraham Wald, a Romanian Jew brought to the United States by Mor...

....” Journal of Meteorology 6 ( 2 ): 150 – 59 . ———. 1950 . “A Critical Analysis of the Stanford Research Institute Report ‘Cost-Performance Relationships for Airframes and Turbojet Engines.’” RAND Paper D-0714 . ———. 1951 . Social Choice and Individual Values . New York : Wiley...

... , Martin. 1982 . Game Theory in the Social Sciences . Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Smith , Bruce. 1966 . The RAND Corporation . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Steinhaus , Hugo. 1960 . Definition for a Theory of Games and Pursuit. Naval Research Logistics Quarterly 7...

... 1981 . The Business Response to Keynes, 1929–1964 . New York: Columbia University Press. Fisher , Gene H. , and Warren E. Walker 1994 . Operations Research and the RAND Corporation . Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND. Flexner , Abraham 1910 . Medical Education in the United States...

... of the origins and influences of linear programming, see Dantzig 1963 (chap. 2). 234 Robin E. Rider team of researchers at RAND began to explore the theory of inequalities and the mathematical equivalence of game-theoretic and linear program- ming problems (Dantzig 1963; see also Shubik 1953). Both...

... of World War II” (Rees 1977 : 106). Mathematical economics, previously peripheral to economics, was among those mathematical sciences receiving unprecedented impetus and funding from ONR, RAND, and other military sources. Many wartime operational researchers were conscious of potential peacetime...

... Leonid Hurwicz Cowles Commission for Research in Economics rational choice References Abella Alex . 2008 . Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire . Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt . Allais Maurice . 1953 . “ Le comportement de l’homme rationnel...