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OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND THE PUBLIC SECTOR
Edited by S.M. Pollock, M.H. Rothkopf and A. Barnett

CHAPTER 1
Operations Research in the Public Sector: An Introduction and a Brief History
S.M. Pollock and M.D. Maltz

1. What is operations research?*  

2. What is the 'public sector'?

3. A brief history

References

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