Author: Stanford University. Department of Operations ResearchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Decision Analysis of the U. S. Breeder Reactor Program
Author: Stanford University. Department of Operations ResearchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Review of the Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor Program
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Ad Hoc Subcommittee to Review the Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor ProgramPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Breeder reactors
Languages : en
Pages : 1166
Book Description
Energy Abstracts for Policy Analysis
Author: Organization and Decision Theory
Author: Ira HorowitzPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 940092514X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Ira Horowitz Depending upon one's perspective, the need to choose among alternatives can be an unwelcome but unavoidable responsibility, an exciting and challenging opportunity, a run-of-the-mill activity that one performs seem ingly "without thinking very much about it," or perhaps something in between. Your most recent selections from a restaurant menu, from a set of jobs or job candidates, or from a rent-or-buy or sell-or-Iease option, are cases in point. Oftentimes we are involved in group decision processes, such as the choice of a president, wherein one group member's unwelcome responsibility is another's exciting opportunity. Many of us that voted in the presidential elections of both 1956 and 1984, irrespective of political affiliation, experienced both emotions; others just pulled the lever or punched the card without thinking very much about it. Arriving at either an individual or a group decision can sometimes be a time consuming, torturous, and traumatic process that results in a long regretted choice that could have been reached right off the bat. On other occasions, the "just let's get it over with and get out of here" solution to a long-festering problem can yield rewards that are reaped for many 1 ORGANIZATION AND DECISION THEORY 2 years to come. One way or another, however, individuals and organiza tions somehow manage to get the decision-making job done, even if they don't quite understand, and often question, just how this was accomplished.
Decision Science and Social Risk Management
Author: M.W MerkhoferPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400946988
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Economists, decision analysts, management scientists, and others have long argued that government should take a more scientific approach to decision making. Pointing to various theories for prescribing and rational izing choices, they have maintained that social goals could be achieved more effectively and at lower costs if government decisions were routinely subjected to analysis. Now, government policy makers are putting decision science to the test. Recent government actions encourage and in some cases require government decisions to be evaluated using formally defined principles 01' rationality. Will decision science pass tbis test? The answer depends on whether analysts can quickly and successfully translate their theories into practical approaches and whether these approaches promote the solution of the complex, highly uncertain, and politically sensitive problems that are of greatest concern to government decision makers. The future of decision science, perhaps even the nation's well-being, depends on the outcome. A major difficulty for the analysts who are being called upon by government to apply decision-aiding approaches is that decision science has not yet evolved a universally accepted methodology for analyzing social decisions involving risk. Numerous approaches have been proposed, including variations of cost-benefit analysis, decision analysis, and applied social welfare theory. Each of these, however, has its limitations and deficiencies and none has a proven track record for application to govern ment decisions involving risk. Cost-benefit approaches have been exten sively applied by the government, but most applications have been for decisions that were largely risk-free.
Review of the Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Program
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Ad Hoc Subcommittee to Review the Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor ProgramPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Breeder reactors
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Survey of the Research Into Energy-economy Interactions: Annotated bibliography
Author: United States. Energy Information Administration. Macroeconomic Analysis DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Power resources
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Issues for Consideration--review of National Breeder Reactor Program, Materials Compiled by the Staff of the Ad Hoc Subcommittee to Review the Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor Program of .... 1975
Author: United States. Congress. Atomic Energy Joint CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 685
Book Description
Discounting for Time and Risk in Energy Policy
Author: Robert C. LindPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135985189
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
This is a collection of theoretical papers, including contributions by Partha Dasgupta and three Nobel prize-winning economists: Kenneth Arrow, Amartya Sen, and Joseph Stiglitz. Originally published in 1982.
Fast Breeder Reactor Program
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Economic CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Breeder reactors
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description