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

CHAPTER 2
Public Sector Analysis and Operations Research/Management Science
S.I. Gass

1. Introduction*  

2. Public sector analysis and Operations Research/Management Science

3. Differences between decisions in public vs. private sectors

4. Policy analysis and policy problems

5. The extended role of the model in policy analysis

6. Model evaluation

7. Model life-cycle process

8. Models, ethics and advocacy

9. Examples of policy models in adversarial situations

10. Examples of ethical situations in OR modeling

11. Summary

Acknowledgements

References

Bibliography

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