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By intuition or design of its planners there is a certain unity among the parts of this symposium. However, as a participant-observer I also felt a significant disjunction. Hence in saying my own piece I will try to emphasize some problems of relationships of parts. The particular framework used in this paper is a system-based approach to unified social science, as found in more detail in three books (Kuhn, 1963, 1974, and 1975), which in turn reflect a core of the large literature in system analysis.
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Kuhn, A. (1978). On Relating Individual and Social Decisions. In: Hooker, C.A., Leach, J.J., McClennen, E.F. (eds) Foundations and Applications of Decision Theory. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, vol 13b. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9792-9_5
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