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PLANNING: LESSONS FROM THE PORTS
Author(s) -
WILSON G. K.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.313
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1467-9299
pISSN - 0033-3298
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9299.1983.tb00521.x
Subject(s) - politics , carry (investment) , rational planning model , scale (ratio) , economic planning , public administration , business , term (time) , political science , economics , management , finance , market economy , law , geography , physics , cartography , quantum mechanics
The National Ports Council, created in 1964 and abolished in 1982, was engaged in one of the rare sustained attempts at planning in Britain. This article explains the Council's decision not to carry out full‐scale planning because of the difficulties of collecting information, assessing technological and economic changes, and reconciling rational economic planning with short term political pressures.