Planning in the Public Domain
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Activism
Advocacy
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Bourgeoisie
Capitalism
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Civil society
Consideration
Cost-benefit analysis
Decision-making
Division of labour
Economic growth
Economic planning
Economist
Economy
Edward C. Banfield
Employment
Engineering
Epistemology
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Forecasting
Governance
Group dynamics
Historical materialism
Household
Ideology
Implementation
Institution
Institutional economics
Karl Mannheim
Legislation
Market economy
Marxism
Organization development
Philosophy
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Planning
Policy
Policy analysis
Political philosophy
Political system
Politician
Politics
Public administration
Radical planning
Rationality
Requirement
Revolutionary movement
Science
Scientific management
Scientific method
Scientist
Self-Reliance
Social class
Social engineering (political science)
Social issue
Social learning (social pedagogy)
Social movement
Social Practice
Social progress
Social relation
Social science
Social transformation
Sociology
Technology
The Public Interest
Theory
Urban planning
War economy
Welfare
Welfare economics
World War II
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691022680
- Weight: 765g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 21 Oct 1987
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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John Friedmann addresses a central question of Western political theory: how, and to what extent, history can be guided by reason. In this comprehensive treatment of the relation of knowledge to action, which he calls planning, he traces the major intellectual traditions of planning thought and practice. Three of these--social reform, policy analysis, and social learning--are primarily concerned with public management. The fourth, social mobilization, draws on utopianism, anarchism, historical materialism, and other radical thought and looks to the structural transformation of society "from below." After developing a basic vocabulary in Part One, the author proceeds in Part Two to a critical history of each of the four planning traditions. The story begins with the prophetic visions of Saint-Simon and assesses the contributions of such diverse thinkers as Comte, Marx, Dewey, Mannheim, Tugwell, Mumford, Simon, and Habermas. It is carried forward in Part Three by Friedmann's own nontechnocratic, dialectical approach to planning as a method for recovering political community.
