By decree in 1918, the Soviets abolished private ownership of land, made farming the sole basis of landholding, and declared collectivization a major objective of policy.
In a speech in May, Adair Turner, the commission's chairman, said: "If we have no earnings-related objective of policy, many people will make inadequate provision".
One of the lessons the Tories should have learnt from what we did was that if competition for its own sake becomes the objective of policy, then you run the risk of getting policy wrong.
Would it change the spending priorities if the first objective of policy was to make sure that children have safe places to live and play, enough good food to eat and support when a family crisis strikes?
And it would pressurise other ministries, like the ministry of education, to make wellbeing a major objective of policy.
The primary objective of policy Delphi is not to reach a consensus, but rather to estimate desirability and feasibility and let controversial aspects emerge.
That is, we argue that the economic textbook model of the ETS implausibly assumes (1) efficient policy design and (2) climate protection as the single objective of policy intervention.
The simple exercise of introducing feelings to the national accounts, or thinking of them as a legitimate objective of policy, or of stretching the measure of national progress to include things that are not easily monetized, is horribly difficult, but might be a way of reminding ourselves of what we most care about.
Put the objective of policy in the open rather than obscuring the truth about their agenda in ideological smoke.
The pursuit of efficiency has become the central objective of policy makers within most health systems [ 1].
