Particularly, I need good academic journals relating to the questions above that I can read in order for me to be able to discuss the issue extensively.
Operational research is related to the optimization adding to Economics
kindly refer to the papers in IJOR (International Journal of Operation Research ) EJOR ( European Journal of Operation Research) JORS journal of Operation Research and society.
I think operational research is a great concept so far as problems are concerned.. It first breaks the problem into basic components ans then solve it step by step through various analytical parameters like analysis of variance... Regression analysis.. n so on...