Accession Number:

AD0607266

Title:

A STRATEGY FOR DECISION: A REVIEW,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CALIF

Personal Author(s):

• HAMMOND,Paul Y.

Report Date:

1964-10-01

Pagination or Media Count:

9.0

Abstract:

The value of the book being reviewed is in illuminating the rationale of decisionmaking as it occurs in the real world. In effect the authors are arguing, much as the classical economist has argued about the economic system, that things are more rational than they seem to be. The focus of the book is on what the authors call policymaking. They have set social action and choice in the context of a viable political or social community in which people talk with each other, exchange opinions, and criticize each other, and in which cognition, decision, and action are coped with and made more manageable by the division of labor and by a pragmatic concentration on how things can be made different.

Descriptors:

• *SOCIAL SCIENCES
• DECISION MAKING
• POLITICAL SCIENCE
• LEADERSHIP
• BEHAVIOR

Subject Categories:

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE