Government-Industry Planning Interrelationships

This article is based on a paper prepared by the author for the UCLA-INSEAD Seminar at Fontainebleau, France, in September 1964. The seminar was supported by the McKinsey Foundation for Management Research, Inc.

See also the final version: Saraceno P. , Elementi per un piano economico, 1949–1952 (Roma: Centro di Studi e Piano Tecnico-economici, nr. 9, Sept. 1949).

For the methodological approach and some numerical results, see my “Complementarity and Long-Range Projections,” Econometrica, XXIV:4 (Oct. 1956).

Nicholson H. , Diplomacy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1955), p. 136.

Britain and Europe (London: The Economist Intelligence Unit, 1957).

See Bjerve P. J. , Planning in Norway, 1947–1956 (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1959), p. 383.

Up to 20 per cent of a firm's taxable income may be added taxfree to the firm's reserves for investment purposes if deposited with the Central Bank. The deposits are released within four years at a time chosen by the government.

Steiner George A. , ed., Managerial Long-Range Planning (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1963), pp. 44–48.

Skanland H. , “Current Problems in Norwegian Economic Planning,” Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, XCII: 1 (1964), 96.

Bana T. , Investment and Growth Policies in British Industrial Firms (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962), pp. 29–30.

For one example, see Weinberg R. S. , “Multiple Factor Break-even Analysis,” Operations Research, IV: 2 (April 1956), 173 ff.

With regard to diversification, this point is brought out clearly by Ansoff H. I. , “A Model for Diversification,” Management Science, IV:4 (July 1958).

Ferber R. Verdoorn P. J. , Research Methods in Economics and Business (New York: Macmillan, 1962), chap. 11, pp. 486–545.