... Hirschman's approach was rejected as more psychology than economics by a leading representative of detailed plans and removing “obstacles” such as short-ages of foreign exchange and domestic savings. Ironically, RAND psychologists had just shown that team training with simulations plus daily debriefings...

... the group had created a training manual, and the Air Force com- missioned RAND to install the system in all 150 of its US radar bases. Toward the end of 1956, moreover, this RAND training unit was spun off under a new name and became a fully incorporated independent entity. At this point RAND...

... 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...

... and Harvard univer- sities established their Soviet studies centers in the late 1940s, they rep- licated this model, incorporating economics as a core discipline in the centers, with active research and training programs. The new RAND Cor- poration sponsored research on the Soviet economy at both...

... became one of the major consultants to RAND. When asked to gather scientists who could become consultants for RAND, he put forward Alchian as a suitable candidate. His former student was well trained in statistics, he was an offi cer in the air force, and he lived nearby. At a conference held...

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... Hirschman’s views on, 9–10, Davidson-Suppes-Siegel experiment 229–233 (DSS). See also Mosteller- as similar to RAND Systems Nogee experiment (MN) Training Program, background, 240, 253 236–37 critiques of, 262–63...

... 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...

... 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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... 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...

... by cumulative investment. We finally study the different strategies for modeling learning developed in the 1950s and 1960s, showing the influence of RAND's and Armen Alchian's contributions on Arrow's use of a log-linear equation of learning and its introduction into an economic growth model. Correspondence...

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... . Backhouse Roger E. 2012a . “ Linear Programming and Economic Analysis: The Collaboration between Samuelson, Dorfman, and Solow, 1949-1958 .” Unpublished draft . ———. 2012b . “ Paul Samuelson, RAND, and the Cowles Commission Activity Analysis Conference, 1947-1949 .” Unpublished draft...