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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.
This chapter, reprinted from “Introduction to Gunnar Myrdal”, Value in Social Theory, ed. Paul Streeten, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London (1958) is a revised and expanded version of an article that appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 68 (August 1954).
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Notes
R.B. Braithwaite, ‘Moral Principles and Inductive Policies’, Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. 36 (1950.), pp. 65f.
See T. D. Weldon,The Vocabulary of Politics, Penguin, Harmondsworth (1953), esp. Ch. 3, Section 7 and Ch. 5.
T. Ferguson and J. Cunnison, The Young Wage-Earner: A Study of Glasgow Boys, Oxford University Press (1951).
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Streeten, P. (1981). Programmes and Prognoses. In: Development Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05341-4_1
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