Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WITH THINK TANKS, diversity is the name of the game. Every conceivable interest group in the nation now has or has had at least one think tank working for it. Think tanks usually work on a whole range of problems at the same time: strategic weaponry, nuclear contingency plans, new ideas for preventing and fighting crime, stinging rebukes to Federal agencies, development of HoJo Cola, the Lark filter, freeze-dried foods, the location of Disneyland and thousands of other problems land desired innovations...
Peter L. Szanton, former president of the New York City RAND institute and now a lecturer for the Kennedy Institute of Politics, suggests that the current think tank "phenomenon" is related to a major change in the identity of the people governing...
...WITHIN the last 20 years, the government has been operating and intervening more ambitiously by directing resources. Instead of regulation, the U.S now obtains results by heaving money into different areas. This has brought with it the rise of the economist and in particular the think tank, which enables the economist to exert his knowledgeable influence. In order to dig deeper into what makes a think tank tick, Szanton proposes that three questions economists often ask be explored: (1) What is being produced? (2) How is it being produced? (3) For whom is it being produced...
...necessary to unite both the clients and the researchers in analysis and implementation. The Center for Community Economic Development, a think tank based in Cambridge, already fuses its staff with the people of the communities it serves. Also, the New York City RAND Institute attempts to draw its municipal clients into the research and to allow the researcher to take part in the implementation of the research. The result is an improved recommendation from the think tank that evolves with the client, insuring a better likelihood of action from a client who is wiser and more competent from his participation...
...WHOM DO and should the think tanks work? The government, of course, is the largest and most powerful employer. But it is mostly the executive brand, and even further the top levels of the executive agencies which rely upon the economists, analysts, researchers and specialists. However the current development within think tank into become one's own client. In other words, think tanks by contracting several clients, are obtaining freedom to become their own client since they are not totally responsible to one client. This has its advantages. Working for only the top levels of the government is like writing...