Organization for Forecasting and Planning: Experience in the Soviet Union and the United States
Abstract
This book, prepared by a joint Soviet-American editorial board, is an effort by planning and management experts from both countries to describe their views of current planning and forecasting theory, practice, and problems. The authors analyze the patterns of development of planning and forecasting systems in each country and identify needs for and lines of further development. They identify planning and forecasting problems and practices common to both countries, and areas where joint research between the two countries might lead to greater effectiveness in the planning practices of each.