Programmes and Prognoses

Paul Streeten

Chapter 1 in Development Perspectives, 1981, pp 3-34 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract 1 Is and ought. 2 Programme and prognosis. 3 Programme determined by prognosis. 4 Prognosis determined by programme; programmes as social data; selection and relevance; models and concepts: the index number problem; inadequacy of the means-ends schema; implications for welfare economics. 5 Interdependence between programme and prognosis; prophecies: cure through prognosis; dangerous thought: destruction through prognosis; harmony through prognosis; speculation and oligopoly. 6 The task of the social sciences. 7 Ideologies. 8 Summary.

Keywords: Social Theory; Welfare Economic; Development Perspective; Social Welfare Function; Social Harmony (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1981
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-05341-4_1

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