In the 1960's, the Rand Corporation's formalisation of a sophisticated Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System constituted the heyday of rational planning, which was resurrected again in the 1980s and 1990s with the idea of new public management.
The problem with ignoring the agent's perspective, in Hayek's view, is that it can easily lead us to overestimate our powers of rational planning and control, and thus to fall into "rationalism".
Word of mouth, casual connections and hearsay often play a larger role than rational planning.
Bratman identified three norms that encourage rational planning: consistency, coherence and stability.
And yet as any true conservative can tell you, the sort of rational planning Mitt Romney embodies never works.
These designers sought a neutral and objective approach that emphasized rational planning and de-emphasized the subjective, or individual, expression.
He was well suited to an environment where rational planning and prudent investments were the order of the day.
Our findings underline that rational planning using statistics gets governments only so far in meeting pressing societal challenges.
Different conceptual models of policy, particularly the rational planning model and disjointed incrementalism, are noted.
A manual on the rational planning and conduct of military operations written over two millennia ago in China.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies warns that the only way to cut quickly is to axe whatever is easiest with random destruction, without rational planning.
