Richard E. Neustadt’s scientific contributions

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Thinking in Time: The Uses of History For Decision Makers
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January 1986

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Richard E. Neustadt

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Earnest R. May

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... Neustadt was holding a lecture series with Ernest May at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, which became the basis of their influential book Thinking in Time. 1 I was deeply impressed by what seemed to me a call to arms. Since, as Neustadt asserted, decisionmakers always draw on history to some extent, historians had a duty to take up the task of assisting them to develop a more conscious and nuanced understanding of that history. ...

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'The therapeutic function of the commissioned historian'
Thinking in Time: The Uses of History For Decision Makers
  • Citing Article
  • January 1986