Macro-engineering And The Future

Frank P. Davidson is chairman of the System Dynamics Steering Committee at Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.C. Lawrence Meador, a former lecturer in the School of Engineering at M.I.T., is president of Decision Support Technology, Inc.

• Also of Interest -- Introduction -- Macro-Engineering and the Public Sector -- The Apollo Tradition: An Object Lesson for the Management of Large-Scale Technological Endeavors -- Practical Experience with Macro-Engineering in the Federal Sector -- Foreseeing the Problems of Developing Nigeria's New Federal Capital -- Economic Considerations and Private Sector Management -- The Productivity Problem -- Churchill Falls: A Manager’s View of an Energy Project with Continent-Wide Impacts -- Unique Problems in Managing the Development of a Macro-Engineering Project -- The Inescapable Subject of Finance -- Addressing the Energy Question: Considerations of Development and Finance -- The Role and Resources of Investment Banking -- Limited Recourse Financing -- Macro-Management: A View From the Academy -- Myth and Reality in Project Planning and Control -- Managing Multi-Organization Enterprises: The Emerging Strategic Frontier -- Decision Support Systems and the Marginal Economics of Effort -- Re-Education for a Re-Industrializing Society -- Producing the Engineer-Manager: The French Experience -- Education for the 21st Century -- Seven Commandments for the Survival of a Technological Society