Building Good Models is Not Enough

Richard Richels
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Richard Richels: Electric Power Research Institute, 3412 Hillview Avenue, P.O. Box 10412, Palo Alto, California 94303

Interfaces, 1981, vol. 11, issue 4, 48-54

Abstract: The failure of models to live up to the expectations and demands of the user community has led to increasing skepticism about the usefulness of policy modeling. This paper examines reasons for this growing dissatisfaction and considers ways to deal with it.

Keywords: philosophy; of; modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1981
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