1. How scientific are the social sciences? -- 2. Toward a new scientific paradigm for the social science: according Myrdal -- 3. Planning and planning theory: the difficult legacy of Ragnar Frisch -- 4. Basic requirements for the Programming approach -- 5. The ‘Programming approach’ -- 6....

1. The ‘Planning Accounting Frame’(PAF), as an instrument of the ‘programming approach’ -- 2. The spatial dimension of the Planning Accounting Framework -- 3. A ‘System of models’ for the PAF elaboration -- 4. The political and practical use of the PAF -- 5. Conclusive considerations

1. The programming approach, as futuristic decision and rational utopia -- 2. The programming approach and the old, unresolved debate of the ‘decision theory’ -- 3. The programming approach as collective decision-and-action centered analysis (and the ‘planning theory’ movement) -- 4. The...

The paper is dedicated to a general analysisof the structural evolution of the modern capitalisticsociety and to its influences on the traditionalsocialist policy. In a first part - alreadypublished in "Economia & Lavoro" (2, 2012)- the structural changes of the contemporarysociety, and the...