Supply Side Planning Scholarship
Abstract
central mission the publication of scholarship and research about the phenomena of planning itself. Achieving the objective of being a journal of record will require a readiness to publish work that is initially seen as unconventional, complex, or difficult to understand. . . . In order to attract the best work (whether philosophical or analytical) we will accept that not all articles will be readily accessible to all readers. JPER was emerging as a place for then-new planning theory (communicative and critical), in which neither Gill nor I was a player. My published works and some of Gill's were in mathe- matical modeling, and there was concern that we would take the journal in that direction, which was already well served by other journals. We proposed to and did publish both. In a letter I signed as department head, the department committed to 25 percent released time for each coeditor, expenses of the article review process, a half-time graduate assistant for eleven months, and clerical staff. ACSP paid the direct costs of producing the printed object and mailing it. These resources will be allocated from resources already within the control of the department and therefore repre- sent a