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Lawmakers and their eco-activist comrades routinely engage in social experimentation and central planning akin to previous Great Leaps Forward and refuse to acknowledge the damage their actions inflict on businesses, workers, families and minorities. They have locked up enough oil, gas, coal and uranium to power the United States literally for centuries. (Townhall.com)
Health Reform: Leap Into The Past Jun 4, 2008
Rather than a step forward, the Massachusetts scheme is a leap backward toward greater central planning a government system that has failed to improve conditions in every instance it has been tried yet has a perfect record at trampling liberty. Meddling policymakers need to leave health care alone and let it solve its own problems. (Investors Business Daily)
LETTERS: NCT, May 31, 2008 Jun 1, 2008
"Oh, tell me as I drive past gas stations at more than $4.00 gas (getting 600 miles on my 12 gallon tank), or open my electric bill each month with nothing due, to see how much additional credits I have amassed this month.And, oh, the Prius is oh so passe. Many of us are looking to the new Aptera, locally produced in Carlsbad, on sale later this year, with the possibility of using no gasoline at all, and not caring if gas goes to $20 a gallon.This doesn't even begin to cover the recognition that... (North County Times)
Cuban doctors assist China's earthquake relief efforts May 29, 2008
Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL): Cuban doctors assist China's earthquake relief efforts. Add-On Core Code (Remove when not using any add-on's) document. (Party for Socialism and Liberation)
Yugo-nostalgiaCan Eurovision reunite the Balkans in nostalgia for old unity? May 24, 2008
There is plenty of Yugo-nostalgia around - and it is more than a longing for badly produced cars and central planning. Across the former republics people say how they miss the unity of the old country, its relative wealth, and how its place in the world meant that they could travel freely. (BBC News -- Europe)
An Earmark + K Street Lobbyist = Massive Federal Land Grab May 9, 2008
And federal bureaucrats love heritage areas because they allow them to get around little inconveniences to their central planning -- inconveniences such as local elected officials ... And federal bureaucrats love heritage areas because they allow them to get around little inconveniences to their central planning -- inconveniences such as local elected officials. (Townhall.com)
No candidate offers freedom May 4, 2008
Democracy is the belief that a free people, each making free choices daily, has a collective wisdom that supersedes central planning, which is no more than central coercion. Democracy is wrapped in freedom. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Econ 101 Election Watch: Presidents Shouldn’t Have ‘Plans’ Apr 16, 2008
However, in 1920 the renowned Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises published Socialism, in which he pointed out that central planning cannot result in a prosperous economy. One of his main points was that a planner cannot accumulate and process the information needed to allocate resources to their highest and best use. (Human Events Online)
Buildings Make Way For Progress Apr 10, 2008
Jim Woodrick, review and compliance officer for the department, informed the East Central Planning and Development District in a letter dated April 12, 2007, there was no legal obstacle barring the city s plans. It is our determination that the existing building, portions of which were apparently constructed in 1940, have lost sufficient integrity for National Register of Historic Places eligibility. (Forest Scott County Times, MS)
Photo Release -- Northrop Grumman Announces Leadership Appointments to Navy Programs At Shipbuilding Sector Apr 9, 2008
As vice president of Navy programs, Mahler is responsible for all Navy work, including aircraft carrier design, construction, overhaul and fleet maintenance; submarine design, construction and fleet maintenance; Advanced SEAL Delivery System; Gulf Coast work-share efforts performed at Newport News; central planning; and integration activities. Mahler reports to Matt Mulherin, Shipbuilding sector vice president and general manager. (Primezone Releases)
Breath of a Nation Animated CO2 Map Apr 8, 2008
He mistakenly blames the invasion of Iraq and global warming for the crisis, choosing as a result of his cognitive dissonance to point at those two factors, instead of frankly understanding that it was misunderstanding about CO2, and an overeliance on central planning in the form of subsidies to the biofuel industry, that has precipitated this crisis ... an over[r]eliance on central planning delude the warmers bow to co2 and climate change is utterly kneejerk; the prerequisite kissing of the... (New York Times)
Turning head office into an activist centre Apr 7, 2008
The imperialist centre, with a large staff doing central planning and oversight, the argument goes, makes less sense in an era of fast-changing technologies and markets. Information technology and outsourcing have made many centralized support functions unnecessary. (Globe and Mail -- Business)
Nikolai Baibakov, 97; was oil minister under Stalin Apr 4, 2008
In 1955, Mr. Baibakov was appointed head of Gosplan, the huge Soviet central planning agency that set production quotas and investment levels for industry and agriculture. In that job, he was expected to ensure that what was called "the worker's paradise" delivered on its economic promises. (Boston Globe)
Growth on steady course in two parishes Apr 2, 2008
"What we're seeing is slow, steady growth throughout the region," said Scott Leger, with the South Central Planning and Development agency, which serves St. Charles, St. John and St. James parishes. To some, that is good news. (Nola.com -- Sports)
The Fraser Institute: Canadians' Access to New Medicines Delayed or Blocked by Government Policies and Drug Plans Apr 2, 2008
The most economically rational way to ensure that everyone has adequate drug insurance coverage without unnecessarily delaying consumer access or restricting consumer choice through central planning is to introduce means-tested, publicly subsidized access to private insurance for prescription drugs. "Research suggests that private-payment health systems, which use a combination of private insurance and out-of-pocket spending, are better structured to encourage efficient demand for and supply of... (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
Reservoir Dogs Mar 29, 2008
When Ethics Get Marked to Market (Bear Stearns, J.P. Morgan, Lehman Brothers, DuPont, Clear Channel) at SmartMoney. Sign up now for FREESmartMoney. (SmartMoney)
New wave of MLS owners Mar 28, 2008
When Seattle starts play next year, Carey plans to challenge the MLS central planning model by allowing supporters to have a say in team affairs ... Carey's plan to emulate the European club system might not catch on, but the fact he can propose it shows MLS is progressing beyond the central planning that has dominated the league's mind-set since 1996. (Boston Globe)
Governor David Paterson of New York: Super Liberal Mar 25, 2008
Paterson is also very tight with New York s Working Families Party which the Manhattan Institute s Sol Stein describes as promoters of 1960s bred agenda of anti-capitalism, central planning, victimology and government handouts to the poor ... Paterson is also very tight with New York s Working Families Party which the Manhattan Institute s Sol Stein describes as promoters of 1960s bred agenda of anti-capitalism, central planning, victimology and government handouts to the poor. (Human Events Online)
Safe Routes to School plan complete; projects to begin Mar 20, 2008
The study was written by Ann Schell, a planner with the West Central Planning Commission. Schell has also agreed to write the grant. (Chetek Alert, WI)
Chinas miracle Mar 20, 2008 State botches driver ID reform (2) Mar 15, 2008 Myanmar biofuel effort raises doubts Mar 15, 2008 Fair market must be transparent Mar 8, 2008 More of this story Mar 1, 2008 Still Castro's Cuba Feb 27, 2008 The Rankin OSC outrage: Corcoran Feb 23, 2008 Economic insanity Feb 23, 2008 April Ingle speaks about a recently passed state water plan. Feb 22, 2008 Adios, Comandante Feb 20, 2008 The Devils Lake Development Authority is born Feb 14, 2008 Q&A: Volga tripRupert Wingfield-Hayes answers your questions about Russia Feb 13, 2008 * Weather crisis cranks up the rickety Chinese mining machine Feb 12, 2008 China turns to economic controls Feb 11, 2008 Lee Kuan Yew: Asia's Growing Role In Financial Markets Feb 9, 2008 As most of China celebrates new year, a scramble continues in coal country Feb 9, 2008 Bernanke's Next Challenge Feb 8, 2008 Retailer launches new initiatives Feb 7, 2008 Smart Grid: Leveraging Technology to Transform T&D Operating Models Feb 5, 2008 Mozambique gets in line for prosperity Feb 1, 2008 50 comments Jan 31, 2008 Analyst says introducing competition in bus industry will be a challenge Jan 20, 2008 Transport minister announces major changes in land transport Jan 18, 2008 The Link Between Freedom and Prosperity Jan 17, 2008 Pollution Regulation's Unintended Consequences Jan 16, 2008 Laggard Laos turns the economic corner Jan 10, 2008 Morton Mourns Loss Of Owens Jan 10, 2008 Competition can make health care affordable Jan 6, 2008 Letters to the editor Dec 30, 2007 Albert: Istanbul Talk Dec 26, 2007 As industry moves East, China now the world's smokestack Dec 21, 2007 U.S. firms say China costs rising Dec 16, 2007 Greenspan: Global growth spurred credit crisis Dec 13, 2007 FEATURE-East Europe's drab prefab towers ripe for revamp Dec 5, 2007 Vietnam stock exchange one of Asia's top performers Nov 26, 2007 Chinese interns to test their metal at BHP Nov 23, 2007 Rail projects shunted to back of the queue Nov 23, 2007 Albert: Turkish Interview Nov 23, 2007 TK Arun: In the shadow of Nandigram Nov 22, 2007 Believe me greenies, I tried the bus but it is a lost cause Nov 14, 2007 Six arrested in Congo radioactive dumping scandal Nov 10, 2007 China Environment Woes Blamed on Lack of Planning Nov 9, 2007 * WHO: Long on agenda, but short on the facts Nov 4, 2007 Your view: Planning limits land owner rights Nov 2, 2007 News in brief Nov 2, 2007 The California Fires: Where were the Looters? Nov 1, 2007 Californians return to assess fire damage Oct 27, 2007 Russia bids to freeze food prices Oct 25, 2007 The Restoration of King Dollar Oct 23, 2007 Mossberg: US mobile phone system is an intolerable, backward ... Oct 23, 2007 Father of Mechanism Design Wins Nobel Oct 16, 2007 Family squares off over state's 'square' counties Oct 13, 2007 Health Care: Universal Care's Filthy Failure Oct 13, 2007 The Shock Doctrine Oct 2, 2007 An electric debate? Sep 29, 2007 We Cant Afford to Forget Sep 29, 2007 Dumped by Reagan, Sea Treaty Now Up for Passage Sep 27, 2007 Adapting useful role models is key to SA's development Sep 27, 2007 Investing in North Korea Sep 23, 2007 Wilpert: Changing Venezuela Introduction Sep 22, 2007 True visionary Sep 20, 2007 Sartor blames Costello for land shortage Sep 14, 2007 Is it too late to stop the ethanol con job? Sep 14, 2007 'Slow decision making cost India Intel plant' Sep 10, 2007 Conservatives Mobilize Against Law of the Sea Treaty Sep 10, 2007
China is not the only country that switched from central planning to a de facto market economy. The collapse of communism in the late 1980s and early 1990s set the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe free as well. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)
The System Is Broken Mar 18, 2008
Efficient Markets Can Value Assets. Ours Can't (Bear Stearns, J.P. Morgan) at SmartMoney. (SmartMoney)
The entire concept of centralizing the driver s license system smells of communist-style central planning. DMV officials are assuming that hundreds of local DMV employees cannot be trusted to check the veracity of applicants identification documents. (Rockingham Daily Journal, NC)
Others are less sure, saying the junta's plan to turn the country into a biofuel plantation producing physic nuts is yet another example of the ill-conceived central planning that has crippled a once promising economy. "Everybody can take part and it's good for the environment," Kyaw Sinnt said, standing next to a small patch of the sticklike shrubs in Pyaw Gan, a bamboo hut village typical of the parched region southwest of Mandalay. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
But as economist FA Hayek wrote in his 1944 essay The Road to Serfdom, opposition to central planning should not be confused with a dogmatic laissez faire attitude. For competition to work beneficially, a carefully thought-out legal framework is required. (The Australian)
In January, South Central Planning Development Commission began soliciting bids for operators of the new bus system that will connect St. James, St. John and St. Charles Parishes to New Orleans. The bids are due in March 4;We ve asked for proposals starting on or after June 1st, said Martha Cauzabon who is managing the RPTA account at South Central. (L Observateur, LA)
This means Cubans will continue to subsist on shockingly poor living standards imposed by Communist Party central planning. And dissidents who dare to criticize the Castro orthodoxy will face long prison sentences, if not firing squads. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Opinion)
We view the Pigou approach as just another form of central planning dressed up in free market terminology. The National Post's sensational series on scientists who buck the conventional wisdom on climate science. (National Post)
It's 2008, not 1931, but a lot of people still have inexplicable faith in government central planning. Too bad. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Opinion)
"Central planning went out with the Soviets," he added, addressing concerns that metro Atlanta may be wresting too much control from the rest of the state. Fischer said his committee planned to launch a Web site in the near future to provide a forum for both proponents and opponents of the plan to voice their opinions. (Clayton Tribune, GA)
Since then, Castro has moved to again tighten central planning of the Cuban economy and to limit Cubans' access to U.S. dollars and the Internet. In general, authoritarian states are only as stable as the hold on power of an individual leader or small ruling clique. (Slate)
Rick Anderson of North Central Planning moderated the meeting and offered his organization as the entity through which grants and funding might be pursued for meeting the authority s goals. (For a complete News story see the Wednesday, February 13, 2008 Journal) 02/13/08. (Devils Lake Daily Journal, ND)
You are absolutely right that Russia's poor road infrastructure is a legacy of communist central planning, which emphasised the development of railways and put little priority on roads. In the worker's paradise there was no real place for the private car, but those days are long gone and Russia is now taking to the road in a big way. (BBC News -- Europe)
China's central planning agency, the National Development and Reform Commission, stated that certain closed mines would be allowed to reopen to help meet demand. But the short-term emphasis on production glossed over the complexity of the coal situation and raised questions about whether the government was signaling that unsafe mines could be reopened. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Beijing's anti-inflation tactics highlight its continued reliance on the tools of communist central planning in an economy that depends on private business for its dynamism. Normally, prices for meat, vegetables, clothing and consumer goods are set by the thriving free market. (Anchorage Daily News)
Deng Xiaoping launched China's "open door" policy in December 1978, discarding Soviet-style central planning in favor of a free-market approach. Since then China has achieved a stunning 9% or higher yearly growth rate 19 times. (Forbes)
China's central planning agency, the National Development and Reform Commission, stated that certain closed mines would be allowed to reopen to help meet demand. But the short-term emphasis on production glossed over the complexity of the coal situation and raised questions about whether the government was signaling that unsafe mines could now be reopened. (International Herald Tribune)
This Keynesian central planning has damaged the Fed's credibility ... This Keynesian central planning has damaged the Fed's credibility. (Townhall.com)
" Localization Initiatives Called "My Macy's," a localization initiative was developed over the past year based on customer research, as well as input from Macy's store managers, senior division executives, merchandise vendors and industry experts. Its goal is to accelerate sales growth in existing locations by ensuring that core customers surrounding each Macy's store find merchandise assortments, size ranges, marketing programs and shopping experiences that are custom-tailored to their needs.... (USA Today -- Money)
In sum, the utility as we know it evolves as the smart grid becomes the transportation utility under central planning. Shifting from price controls to prudential regulation, generation and customer facing front and back office activities will become free market activities as can be seen in the EWPC article. (Energy Pulse, CO)
This is a monument to the folly of war and of central planning. But on the other side of the runway is a newer, smarter terminal building. (Business Report, South Africa)
For quite some time many socialists [dems] regarded Soviet-style central planning as a specific and plausible solution to Red Monday. http://cscs. (Human Events Online)
As for LTA taking over the central planning role from bus operators, Professor Chin said it could now look at planning not just for passengers but also potential passengers as it will have access to data on bus, rail and car usage. But he added that the numbers will have to be measured accurately and independently to ensure real improvements are being made. (Channel NewsAsia, Singapore)
So firstly, the LTA will take over the central planning of the bus network, with the commuters' ease of journey as the main focus. ADVERTISEMENT. (Channel NewsAsia, Singapore)
But if you bind them with the straitjacket of central planning, smother their creativity with over-regulation, fence them in with high tariffs and take their hard-earned money with high taxes, you kill their dreams even as you wreck an economy ... But if you bind them with the straitjacket of central planning, smother their creativity with over-regulation, fence them in with high tariffs and take their hard-earned money with high taxes, you kill their dreams even as you wreck an economy. (Townhall.com)
Monopoly protection and central planning are classic ways to suppress innovation, and the US electric industry suffers from both, which principally explains the observed stagnation. But environmental regulations behind the AEP fines also help explain three decades of stagnant efficiency. (Energy Pulse, CO)
Although the communist government maintains socialist rhetoric and vestiges of the old central planning regime, for all practical sakes and purposes Laos is now in the main a market economy. That represents a significant turn for Laos, which in recent years has undertaken significant structural reforms in trade, private sector development and public financial management. (Asia Times Online)
He served as chairman of the Scott County Democratic Executive Committee and was a member of Paragon Masonic Lodge No. 7, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., East Central Planning and Development Board, the Mississippi Association of Educators, the National Education Association, the American Vocational Association, the Mississippi Vocational Association and the First Certified Municipal Officials. The funeral was on Saturday, Jan. 5, in the Vicksburg City Auditorium with interment following in Oak... (Forest Scott County Times, MS)
Even the state-run Health Facilities Planning Board is awash in Blagojevich's corruption and at its best is providing central planning to tell us how many hospital beds we are allowed to have in our communities. The best hope for the future of health care is competition spurred on by tearing down some of the needless regulation currently in place and by expanding individual choice by making pretax Health Saving Accounts more accessible. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
After ostensibly defending freedom in Iraq for 13 months it pains me to come home and be reminded that central planning and government control are still rampant in the United States. If Mayor Begich and the Assembly want something to do with my garbage, maybe I ought to just drop it off at their offices once a week. (Anchorage Daily News)
Central planning does the same thing, and its more obvious ... So, getting back on track, participatory economy is workers councils and also consumers councils - I havent talked much about the latter, though it is crucial for really understanding the whole system - self-managed decision making, balanced job complexes, equitable remuneration for duration, intensity and onerousness of socially valuable work, and now, finally, we also need a new allocation system that can replace... (Zmag.org)
The country's central planning agency recently barred purchases of some used industrial equipment from abroad, requiring companies to install newer energy-efficient systems. It has canceled many incentives devised to promote exports, especially for companies that guzzle energy and pollute heavily. (International Herald Tribune)
Some companies worry that the law might restore the iron rice bowl of lifetime employment practised by China's state sector during the era of central planning that followed the 1949 communist revolution, said Kent Kedl, general manager of the consulting firm Technomic Asia. But Mr. Kedl said most U.S. companies had little to fear because their employment policies were general in line with international standards, unlike those of smaller local companies that often dismiss workers en masse to... (Globe and Mail -- Business)
"The root of the current crisis, as I see it, lies back in the aftermath of the Cold War, when...market capitalism quietly, but rapidly, displaced much of the discredited central planning that was so prevalent in the Third World," Greenspan wrote. advertisement. (MSNBC -- Business)
Some residents see advantages in the old-style housing estates, suggesting even central planning occasionally had the desired results. "I like living here," said Laszlo Ling, 55, who lives on a monthly disability pension of 50,000 forints ($287. (AlertNet)
The economy is growing at better than an 8% annual clip, foreign investment is pouring in, and a continuing shift away from central planning is transforming lumbering state-owned entities into nimble public companies. Like its northern neighbor, China, Vietnam seems intent on making up for time lost. (USA Today -- Money)
The risk is China's leaders still carry that recessive central planning gene that can emerge to regulate, control or nationalise aspects of the market. China is still one of the big unknowns in Mr Kloppers' campaign to build a world-dominating miner. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
But Mr Watkins backtracked on the Government's central planning document yesterday. "These are projects that the Government may commit to in the future," he said. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Socialist experiences were founded on either central planning or market socialism ... In capitalisms place, what has been called socialism has had, instead, social or collective ownership, remuneration for power and to an extent output, corporate divisions of labor, hierarchical distribution of power, and market competition or central planning, along with, most often, a one party authoritarian state of one sort or another ... It was because seeking markets or central planning and... (Zmag.org)
Then, the party would build industry, central planning and everything else that great Stalin built in the Soviet Union, (gulags included). Till then, the party would oppose pension reform, financial sector liberalisation, labour standards and everything else that would make India a stronger capitalist economy. (India Times)
The next problem is the route appears to be have been designed by Soviet Central Planning. Annandale is five kilometres west of the city, and as three-quarters of the passengers go into the CBD you would expect the bus route to be generally easterly. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Lack of central planning, ministerial infighting and a pervasive get-rich-quick attitude mean China's environmental problems are not going away any time soon, a state newspaper on Thursday quoted an official as saying. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA) CHINA OUT. (AlertNet)
BEIJING - Lack of central planning, ministerial infighting and a pervasive get-rich-quick attitude mean China's environmental problems are not going away any time soon, a state newspaper on Thursday quoted an official as saying. Many Chinese cities are enveloped in choking smog, including 2008 Olympic host Beijing, while rivers run black and green areas are denuded as the country's economy continues to boom. (Planet Ark, United States)
Indeed, past evidence, from telephone monopolies to Chinese central planning, shows that nationalizing any business stifles innovation and, in the case of drugs, would hinder future efforts to create drugs for the poorest countries. This is particularly threatening, as drug-resistant strains of HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis become more prevalent in these regions. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Comprehensive planning is no different from the failed Soviet-styled central planning that ultimately led to breakdown of the government. If this passes, maybe La Crosse County needs a new board and new leadership. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
More than a third of Russians believe the country could do without a parliament, and a quarter favour a return to communist-style central planning, an independent poll shows. Almost 50% see the ruling United Russia party as a revived Soviet Communist party and would like it to control all branches of power, according to the Levada Centre poll, carried out a month before parliamentary elections. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Top-down central planning makes people less self-reliant and makes communities less resilient. I m just asking you to make the same decision for them that you would make for yourself. (Human Events Online)
"There's no strong central planning authority that looks at these areas and says: 'This is a fire trap. We should never build here'. We build a lot of homes in areas that are dangerous and we leave the cost of that risk to the rest of the state. It's never borne by people actually taking the risk [by living in these areas].". Proper action to prevent fires spreading would "require people to change their roofs, not have wood decks and clear 30ft around their homes. But people take that as an... (MSNBC -- Business)
It has been criticised by some economists as a throwback to Soviet-style central planning ... It is the widest-reaching direct government intervention in the pricing system since central planning was abolished more than 15 years ago. (BBC News -- Europe)
But along the way, as the world moved toward growth economics and away from central planning, King Dollar began to slide. Not because the United States was faltering (as the doom-and-gloom pessimists see it), but more because the rest of the world has been doing better. (Human Events Online)
He wants central planning for imposing technology standards, but doesn't like companies with too much control. It looks to me like disruptive technology (e. (MacDailyNews)
Ninety years later on Oct. 15, 2007 Hurwicz was awarded a Nobel prize in economics, in part for explaining the fundamental flaw in the central planning that Lenin imposed in the Soviet Union. But Hurwicz's work does not point to the complete superiority of free markets, either. (BusinessWeek)
Mike Howse, GIS specialist with the East Central Planning and Development District, cautions there are no perfectly square counties. The short explanation is counties are laid out based on longitude and latitude, lines which curve with the Earth's surface. (The Clarion-Ledger)
So what are the Brits getting for their money besides second-rate care, soiled beds, superbug outbreaks, medical professional shortages, state-imposed rationing, central planning and long waits for surgery and doctor visits. Maybe unrepentant anti-choice cranks pushing government health care on an ostensibly free people can tell us. (Investors Business Daily)
Yet, while the Marxist faith in central planning is now confined to a few dingy sects, a quasi-religious belief in free markets continues to shape the policies of governments ... They were left gawping when central planning was followed by the criminalised free-for-all of the '90s and were unprepared for the rise of Putin's resource-based state capitalism. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
But the bigger mystery is why all of the parties leaders seem to believe that, having failed dismally with a centrally planned power system, the solution is even more central planning, with Queen's Park demanding windmills here and nukes there and solar panels over there. Oh, and don't forget the price caps. (Globe and Mail -- Business)
And while FDRs brain trust did not share the totalitarian goals of the days biggest-government prototypes Soviet communism, Italian fascism, and Nazism they sure liked the idea of central planning ... And while FDRs brain trust did not share the totalitarian goals of the days biggest-government prototypes Soviet communism, Italian fascism, and Nazism they sure liked the idea of central planning. (Townhall.com)
"Today, not only are the seabed mining provisions inadequately corrected, and the collectivist ideologies of a now-repudiated system of global central planning still imbedded in the treaty, new and potentially serious concerns have arisen.". Among the concerns Malone listed was the creation of a "huge bureaucracy to govern the world's oceans" that would most likely ally against American interests. (CNSnews.com)
Central planning and the Washington consensus failed as role models because they were too rigid and ideological, one favouring the government above all, the other idolising the market. But when a role model works, it is something to behold. (Business Report, South Africa)
Once the industrial engine of the Korean peninsula, decades of disastrous central planning have left its infrastructure in a state of advanced decrepitude and its citizens in de facto peonage. The U.S. government estimates the North's per capita GDP to be about $1,800, which is roughly the same as Zimbabwe's. (Time.com)
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent implosion of the Soviet Union and of other state socialist regimes signaled the complete discrediting of state socialism and central planning as an institutional solution for achieving the ideals of socialism. At first, this collapse appeared to vindicate social democrats, who had always argued in favor of mixing state and market, in lieu of a complete abolition of the market. (Zmag.org)
The subsequent policy of managing the economy on a central planning model gets a 1. Tunku s policy of promoting meritocracy and a performance-based system earns a 10 if only we can rank it as 11. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Catharine Munro Urban Affairs Editor and Mark MetherellSeptember 14, 2007. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
This is Soviet-style central planning at its very worst. If ethanol were good for consumers and good for the planet, consumers wouldn't be forced to pay for it through their taxes and forced to buy it through legislation. (Globe and Mail -- Business)
"In a democracy, you have to listen to the debate and then make some degree of compromises and look forward. In China, it is a central planning form of capitalism," Barrett said. He said India and China are two huge economies, with the latter being 4-5 years ahead. (Economic Times)
The seabed mining provisions were inadequately corrected and the collectivist ideologies of a new repudiated system of global central planning are still imbedded in the treaty. The bankrupt concepts of the New International Economic Order are still maintained in the treaty. (Human Events Online)
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