David E. Wilson, senior research officer in the UN Joint Inspection Unit, Geneva, Switzerland, has served as management analyst and planning coordinator in the U.S. General Accounting Office.

• Preface -- "National Planning?" -- Analytical Approach -- Prologue: Past American National Planning Efforts and Ideas -- American National Planning Efforts and Ideas in Retrospect, 1900-1972 -- Related Planning Trends in the 1970s -- Analytical Framework: Five Approaches to National Planning -- The Framework Applied: The Growth and Resource National Planning Debates, 1973-1976 -- The Infirmities of Age: The Incremental and Rational Approaches -- The Challenges of Youth: The General Systems and Learning-Adaptive Approaches -- American National Planning: The Future

David E. Wilson, senior research officer in the UN Joint Inspection Unit, Geneva, Switzerland, has served as management analyst and planning coordinator in the U.S. General Accounting Office.

• Preface -- "National Planning?" -- Analytical Approach -- Prologue: Past American National Planning Efforts and Ideas -- American National Planning Efforts and Ideas in Retrospect, 1900-1972 -- Related Planning Trends in the 1970s -- Analytical Framework: Five Approaches to National Planning -- The Framework Applied: The Growth and Resource National Planning Debates, 1973-1976 -- The Infirmities of Age: The Incremental and Rational Approaches -- The Challenges of Youth: The General Systems and Learning-Adaptive Approaches -- American National Planning: The Future

David E. Wilson, senior research officer in the UN Joint Inspection Unit, Geneva, Switzerland, has served as management analyst and planning coordinator in the U.S. General Accounting Office.

• Preface -- "National Planning?" -- Analytical Approach -- Prologue: Past American National Planning Efforts and Ideas -- American National Planning Efforts and Ideas in Retrospect, 1900-1972 -- Related Planning Trends in the 1970s -- Analytical Framework: Five Approaches to National Planning -- The Framework Applied: The Growth and Resource National Planning Debates, 1973-1976 -- The Infirmities of Age: The Incremental and Rational Approaches -- The Challenges of Youth: The General Systems and Learning-Adaptive Approaches -- American National Planning: The Future