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The Cultural Origins of the Dutch Economic Modeling Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2008

Adrienne van den Bogaard
Affiliation:
Centre for Studies of Science, Technology and Society The Netherlands

Abstract

The Netherlands has been a pioneering country in the development of macroeconometric modeling and its use in economic policy. The paper shows that the model was used to overcome the fragmented culture of Dutch pillarization. It proves that the specific use (and institutionalization) of modeling in the policy process is at least partly shaped by a nation's (historical) social structure. The case study relates to the outcome of a controversy within the social democratic pillar in the Netherlands in the period 1930–50 as to how to plan the economic system in the context of the social developments leading up to the crisis, World War II, and the postwar recovery.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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