WHEN, IF EVER, CAN WE EXPECT GOVERMENTAL PLANNING TO WORK: ON PREMATURE PROGRAMMING OF PLANNING

Abstract

In a recent and, for our purposes, quite pertinent paper Martin Landau et. al. have started out by saying: "If a domain of tasks can be mapped to a formal logic, and if that logic orders the behavior of a large complex organization, then that organization becomes a decision machine whose operations are entirely unambiguous and whose output occasions no surprise." shall take it that within this compact sentence is contained the utopian goal of those social engineers who but too willingly have pressed for alterations in governmental decision-making in order to map public affairs with a logic of rationality.