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Book Synopsis
In Law and Economy in Planning, Walter Firey has made a start in the development of an intellectual framework that will give meaning to the craft of social planning and establish a relationship between practice and first principles.

Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • I. The Pure Theory of Planning
    • Planning as a Normative Phenomenon
    • The Epistemological Status of Planning
  • II. The Legal Component of Planning
    • The Pure Theory of Law
    • The Basic Legal Norm
    • Legal Transactions and the Limits to Authority
  • III. The Economic Component of Planning
    • The Theory of General Economic Equilibrium
    • The Basic Economic Norm
    • The Contract and the Limits to Rationality
  • IV. Efficacy and Value in Plans
    • The Concept of Value
    • The Mediate Norm
    • The Dual Source of the Validity of Plan Norms
  • V. The Structure of Value in Plans
    • Possible Combinations of Value in Planning
    • Types of Planning
    • The Sanctions of Plans
    • The Limits of Effective Planning
  • VI. Conformity to Plans
    • Conformity as a Correspondence between Plan and Reality
      • Characteristics of Conforming and Nonconforming Behavior
      • The Complementarity of Obedience Rationality
      • The Variable Ratio between Want Gratification and Want Deprivation
      • The Behavioral Significance of Sanctions
    • Obedience and Rationality in Different Types of Plans
      • Stability Plans
      • Developmental and Allocative Plans
      • Individual Developmental Plans
      • Governmental Developmental Plans
      • Individual Allocative Plans
      • Governmental Allocative Plans
    • Anomalous Activities and the Resistance to Plans
  • VII. The Reality of Planning
  • Index

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      Publisher: MU - University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 1/1/1965 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780292740877, 978-0292740877
      ISBN10: 0292740875

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In Law and Economy in Planning, Walter Firey has made a start in the development of an intellectual framework that will give meaning to the craft of social planning and establish a relationship between practice and first principles.

      Table of Contents
      • Preface
      • I. The Pure Theory of Planning
        • Planning as a Normative Phenomenon
        • The Epistemological Status of Planning
      • II. The Legal Component of Planning
        • The Pure Theory of Law
        • The Basic Legal Norm
        • Legal Transactions and the Limits to Authority
      • III. The Economic Component of Planning
        • The Theory of General Economic Equilibrium
        • The Basic Economic Norm
        • The Contract and the Limits to Rationality
      • IV. Efficacy and Value in Plans
        • The Concept of Value
        • The Mediate Norm
        • The Dual Source of the Validity of Plan Norms
      • V. The Structure of Value in Plans
        • Possible Combinations of Value in Planning
        • Types of Planning
        • The Sanctions of Plans
        • The Limits of Effective Planning
      • VI. Conformity to Plans
        • Conformity as a Correspondence between Plan and Reality
          • Characteristics of Conforming and Nonconforming Behavior
          • The Complementarity of Obedience Rationality
          • The Variable Ratio between Want Gratification and Want Deprivation
          • The Behavioral Significance of Sanctions
        • Obedience and Rationality in Different Types of Plans
          • Stability Plans
          • Developmental and Allocative Plans
          • Individual Developmental Plans
          • Governmental Developmental Plans
          • Individual Allocative Plans
          • Governmental Allocative Plans
        • Anomalous Activities and the Resistance to Plans
      • VII. The Reality of Planning
      • Index

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