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1978 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Toward the Benefit/Cost Evaluation of US Government Applied Social Research and Social Programmes,and the Marginal Productivity of their Components, 1965–75

Author : Clark C. Abt

Published in: Econometric Contributions to Public Policy

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Included in: Professional Book Archive

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At budget time in the US Federal Government’s Office of Management and Budget in the Executive branch, and in the Congressional Budget Office in the legislative branch, the question is probably asked: is the investment in applied social research (concerned with major social problems) worth it? Should we spend more, the same, or less? What should we cut, what should we augment?

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Title
Toward the Benefit/Cost Evaluation of US Government Applied Social Research and Social Programmes,and the Marginal Productivity of their Components, 1965–75
Author
Clark C. Abt
Copyright Year
1978
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Book
Econometric Contributions to Public Policy

Print ISBN: 978-1-349-16005-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-349-16003-7

Copyright Year: 1978

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16003-7_18