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Techniques and Values in Policy Decisions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

Peter Self
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Increasing use is made of techniques which are supposed to make policy decisions more ‘rational’. Rather little attention, however, has been paid to the relation between these techniques and (a) the logic of choice, (b) the political process, (c) value judgements and assumptions. This short paper will investigate these questions in relation to a particularly fashionable technique, that of cost-benefit analysis.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 8: Nature and Conduct , March 1974 , pp. 298 - 312
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1974

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