Roland Neely McKean (October 30, 1917 – April 15, 1993) is an American

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. He received his A.B. and Ph.D. degrees in

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from the

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. From 1951 to 1963, he was a research economist at the

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, where he and Charles J. Hitch developed the Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS), which was first implemented by the

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in 1961. In 1965, President

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extended adoption of PPBS to all executive departments. He was a professor of economics at the

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until 1968, and was the Paul Goodloe Macintire professor of economics at the

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until his retirement in 1988. His books include ''Efficiency in Government Through Systems Analysis'', '' Economics of Defense in the Nuclear Age'' (with Charles J. Hitch), and ''Teacher Shortages and Salary Schedules'' (with Joseph A. Kershaw).Leonard Rutman, ''Planning Useful Evaluations: Evaluability Assessment'', 1980 Sage Publications

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1993 deaths 1917 births Public choice theorists 20th-century American economists {{US-economist-stub