Developing Nations and Super-Optimum Policy Analysis

by Stuart S. Nagel, Miriam K. Mills

The key purpose of this book is to apply decision-aiding software and super-optimum solutions to the public policy problems of developing nations. Decision-aiding software refers to microcomputer programs that can process a set of societal goals to be achieved, public policy alternatives for achieving them, and relations between goals and alternatives. Super-optimum solutions refer to policy alternatives that enable liberals, conservatives, or other major viewpoints to exceed their initial best expectations simultaneously. This approach can be applied to policy problems that relate on a general level to technology, economics, sociology, and political science. This approach is also applicable to more specific policy problems that relate to labor-management relations, transportation, agriculture, education, employment, and defense.

200 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Stuart S. Nagel was an American academic. A Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, he is notable for having coined the terms "super-optimizing" and "win-win analysis" and advancing the boundaries of policy studies.