Study week on the econometric approach to development planning

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Identifikator:: 1027649297

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-54366

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Onciul, Aurel von http://d-nb.info/gnd/122595335

Title:: Wirtschaftspolitisches Handbuch von Rumänien

Place of publication:: Gotha

Publisher:: Friedrich Andreas Perthes

Year of publication:: 1917

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 133 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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1214 PONTIFICIAE ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARVM SCRIPTA VARIA - 28 on the extent to which they restrict economic freedom. Thus one can compare only states of the economy that can be attained by instru- ments that are similar in their social impacts and this implies that constraints have to be brought into the picture from the outset for they describe the states that can be attained by means of a limited set of economic instruments. KooPMANS I am approaching my comment here in the same vein as Prof. DORFMAN. I am not addressing myself to the question whether so- ciety is or should be moving in the direction that Prof. FriscH’s paper indicates. Rather, for the purposes of the discussion, I am accepting his assumption that this is the direction, and speaking more technically to the point whether the particular layout and scheme of Prof. FriscH’s ideas is efficiently designed to achieve the purpose that he has in mind. I have really only two points that I would like to raise in this connection. One concerns the very strict separation of the determination of structure from the determination of preference. On this point I find my thinking to be somewhat related to that of Prof. ArLAIS. It would seem to me that the policy maker who is being interviewed in order to obtain a representation of his preferences will be neither able nor willing to be too specific about these preferences as long as he does not know what the implications of his indications are. He is likely to be pragmatic — not only a man who thinks abstractly about his own preferences. To stay in his position he must respond to pressures and perhaps even threats in order to be effective over a period of time. Even a man of great wisdom would still have to be aware of what he is expected to do by a number of groups who have ways of making their desires effec- tive. Therefore if he is presented by an econometrician with questions « what are your preferences » or « what is the form in which you would mould what you regard to be the preferences that should guide this planning », he may feel that he is being tricked even though without such intent. He is not an econometrician, and 17] Frisch - pag. 18

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