Techniques and Values in Policy Decisions

Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures 8:298-312 (1974)
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Increasing use is made of techniques which are supposed to make policy decisions more ‘rational’. Rather little attention, however, has been paid to the relation between these techniques and the logic of choice, the political process, value judgements and assumptions. This short paper will investigate these questions in relation to a particularly fashionable technique, that of cost-benefit analysis

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