Trond's comment implies that there exists "an optimal" rate of planning,
just like an optimal tax rate or optimal tariff rate. These are mythical
concepts, devoid of any applicability to real life situations. What
really determines how much central planning/market guidance depend on the
concrete conditions: population size, historical, social, and
institutional structure of the country. There can be no generic recipie
for all countries to follow.
Sevgiler!
Fikret Ceyhun
Dept. Of Economics
Univ. Of North Dakota
University Station, Box 8369
Grand Forks, ND 58202
Voice: (701)777-3348
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On Thu, 27 Oct 1994, Trond Andresen wrote:
> The question of how much central planning (as opposed to market
> mechanisms) you can have before the system gets inefficient, cannot be
> discussed without considering how to organize democracy, politics, the
> media.
>
> A program for this is IMO just as important as an "economic" socialist
> program.
>
>
> Trond
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