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Once upon a time, within the memories of men who think they are still young, there was no such thing as operations research, or at least no such phrase. To-day the Operations Research Society of America has more than 2,300 members, the Institute of Management Science has more than 2,600 members (there is considerable overlap, of course) and at a recent international conference on operations research no less than sixteen countries from four continents were represented. It is a flourishing movement.
The author is Professor of Economics, Harvard University.
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Dorfman, R. (1966). Operations Research. In: Surveys of Economic Theory. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00210-8_2
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