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While B. de Jouvenel's pol'al affiliations have been extremely varied--radical socialism from 1924 to 1934, fascism from 1934 to 1943 & neo-liberalism from 1945 onwards--his pol'al theory should be interpreted in the light of 2 themes which he has held throughout. First, technocratic rationalism, stressing the quantitative econ gains available from the operation of individual initiative within a framework of indicative planning. Second, ethical & environmental conservationism, aiming to preserve soc structures & physical resources threatened by the activity implicit in the first theme. The themes merge in Jouvenel's concern with econ, soc & pol'al forecasting which permits a balance to be maintained between the 2. IPSA.