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    "ocrText": "Excerpts from Robert A. Dahl and Charles E. Lindblom,\nPolitics, Economics, and Welfare, New York, 1953.\nDahl is a Yale political scientist, Lindblom a Yale economist./\n\"In economic life the possibilities for rational social\naction, for planning, for reform--in short, for solving problems\n--depend not upon our choice among mythical grand alternatives\nbut largely upon choice among particular social techniques. \" (p.6)\n\"\ntechniques and not 'isms' are the kernel of rational\nsocial action in the Western world. 11 (p. 16)\n\"In economic organization and reform, the 'great issues' are\nno longer the great issues, if ever they were. It has become in-\ncreasingly difficult for thoughtful men to find meaningful alterna-\ntives posed in the traditional choices between socialism and\ncapitalism, planning and the free market, regulation and laissez\nfaire, for they find their actual choices neither so simple nor so\ngrand. Not so simple, because economic organization poses knotty\nproblems that can only be solved by painstaking attention to technical\ndetails--how else, for example, can inflation be controlled? Nor\nso grand, because, at least in the Western world, most people\nneither can nor wish to experiment with the whole pattern of socio-\neconomic organization to attain goals more easily won.\" (p.3)"
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