Distribution Impact Statements (1981)
Environmental impact statements, difficult and ineffective as these sometimes are, nevertheless represent a very important mutation in the whole political information system, and they will undoubtedly give rise to a variety of other forms of impact statements. We need, for instance, distributional impact statements which will throw some light on the question of who is benefitted, who is injured, and who is unaffected by an particular proposal or action.
"Policy Implications of Evolutionary Economics," Evolutionary Economics, Sage, 1981, p. 182.
Back to sources of boulding's optimism around the future (1981)