Abe Charnes

Sten Thore and Ruzanna Tarverdyan

Chapter 13 in Diagnostics for a Globalized World, 2015, pp 177-192 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: A letter from the Technological Institute, Northwestern University arrived on Herman Wold's desk in Uppsala in May of 1963 — a letter that was to change the lives of my family and me forever. A. Charnes, a prolific contributor to the rapidly expanding new science of operations research, had written to Wold that he had a position available for a visiting research scientist in the upcoming academic year. He asked whether Wold could recommend some young PhD among his students who would be willing to travel to the States for a year to work with him…

Keywords: Globalization; Performance Evaluation; Data Envelopment Analysis; DEA; Millennium Development Goals; MDGs; Sustainable Development; United Nations; Rio+20; Post-2015 Agenda; Geneva Consensus; Washington Consensus; Beyond GDP; Jan Tinbergen (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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