ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the large volume of national planning and national planning-related events, government reports, congressional hearings, public policy literature, media reporting, and political debates of this time span. The sources of the first section reflect the vast outpouring of literature on the need for a fundamental rethinking of the structure of the American economy, American society, American government, and American values, which underlay the renewed national planning debates. The citations of the second section encompass several broad areas of the renewed national planning activity and debate. An area involved national planning efforts associated with commodity and resource shortages, especially in the activities of the National Commission on Supplies and Shortages. The citation of the third and last section reflect the parallel public and social scientific dissatisfaction with the performance of the social and policy sciences in general, and debates over the responsibility of social scientists for the breakdowns that had occurred.
