Model World: Models at the OK Corral

Saul I. Gass
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Saul I. Gass: College of Business and Management, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742

Interfaces, 1991, vol. 21, issue 6, 80-86

Abstract: The paper discusses the use and misuse of MS/OR models as adversarial weapons. Successful modeling of physical processes was overextended to modeling social and political problems, often with biases to prove this or other point.

Keywords: professional:; MS/OR; standards (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1991
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