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THE contrast between the unanimity with which the importance of adequate planning of the national life and resources in Great Britain is admitted, and the haphazard and opportunist methods which successive administrations adopt in dealing with such major problems as that of unemployment, is one of the most distressing paradoxes of the present time. It is rare indeed to discern an action dictated by a far-sighted policy which has due regard to the needs of posterity. The first condition of adequate action is exact and detailed knowledge such as can only be provided by an intensive study of a defined problem, and this study administrations have been slow to undertake. At times it seems, indeed, to have been undertaken less as a basis for wise action than as a means of further delaying measures repugnant to the administration or its supporters.
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Social Surveys and Juvenile Unemployment. Nature 132, 761–763 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132761a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132761a0