"Efficiency" has come to conjure up visions of a cold, calculating, narrow, institutional, bottom-line logic. It's a misapprehension fostered by those who remove the idea from its social context, where it is a measure of our effectiveness in meeting human needs and social goals.

Release Date: 10 Jan 2003
Number of pages: 42
Document number: 16417

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