Introduction To Economic Planning

Author : Spencer Rogers & Sammy Gentry
Publisher : Scientific e-Resources
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781839472121

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Economic Development and Planning by Spencer Rogers & Sammy Gentry Pdf

Economic development transforms a traditional dual-system society into a productive framework in which everyone contributes and from which receives benefits accordingly. Economic development occurs when all segments of the society benefit from the fruits of economic growth through economic efficiency and equity. Economic efficiency will be present with minimum negative externalities to society, including agency, transaction, secondary and opportunity costs. An economic development plan is a carefully built framework that's long-term in scope. It's used to help communities across diverse situations. When planning for economic development, the goal is to create and maintain a strong, vibrant local economy. Local government economic development planning is part of a region's overall economic development strategy and involves intergovernmental coordination. The economic development plan provides a comprehensive overview of the economy, sets policy direction for economic growth, and identifies strategies, programs, and projects to improve the economy. Economic planning, the process by which key economic decisions are made or influenced by central governments. It contrasts with the laissez-faire approach that, in its purest form, eschews any attempt to guide the economy, relying instead on market forces to determine the speed, direction, and nature of economic evolution. Finally, the author reminiscences on the excitement that was aroused during the initial period of development planning as well as decline in the expectations from the planning process and its importance. This book imparts the basic information about the economic development and planning of the world.

Author : G. M. Heal
Publisher : Amsterdam : North-Holland Publishing Company ; New York : American Elsevier Publishing Company
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Economic policy
ISBN : 0444104712

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The Theory of Economic Planning by G. M. Heal Pdf

Textbook on economic planning theory - discusses the concept of the planned economy and problems and techniques in short term (incl. Price-guided, non price and mixed planning procedures) and long term planning, social preferences, etc., including economic models. Bibliography pp. 399 to 403, and references.

Author : Anis Chowdhury,Colin Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134858729

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Development Policy and Planning by Anis Chowdhury,Colin Kirkpatrick Pdf

Reorientation from economic controls to a market-based approach led to significant changes in the economic policy of developing countries in the 1980s. Yet, with governments continuing to exercise economic management to accelerate growth beyond that achieved by market forces, techniques and models of development planning are still an integral feature of development policy management. Development Policy and Planning provides a non-technical explanation of the main techniques and models used for economic policy formulation. Each technique is illustrated in application through practical examples.

Author : Robin Hahnel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000392111

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Democratic Economic Planning by Robin Hahnel Pdf

Democratic Economic Planning presents a concrete proposal for how to organize, carry out, and integrate comprehensive annual economic planning, investment planning, and long-run development planning so as to maximize popular participation, distribute the burdens and benefits of economic activity fairly, achieve environmental sustainability, and use scarce productive resources efficiently. The participatory planning procedures proposed provide workers in self-managed councils and consumers in neighbourhood councils with autonomy over their own activities while ensuring that they use scarce productive resources in socially responsible ways without subjecting them to competitive market forces. Certain mathematical and economic skills are required to fully understand and evaluate the planning procedures discussed and evaluated in technical sections in a number of chapters. These sections are necessary to advance the theory of democratic planning, and should be of primary interest to readers who have those skills. However, the book is written so that the main argument can be followed without fully digesting the more technical sections. Democratic Economic Planning is written for dreamers who are disenamored with the economics of competition and greed want to know how a system of equitable cooperation can be organized; and also for sceptics who demand "hard proof" that an economy without markets and private enterprise is possible.

Author : Don Lavoie
Publisher : Cato Institute
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1985-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781937184209

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National Economic Planning by Don Lavoie Pdf

Don Lavoie argues that the radical Left's enthusiasm for planning has been a tragic mistake and that progressive social change requires the abandonment of this traditional view. Lavoie argues that planning—whether Marxism, economic democracy, or industrial policy—can only disrupt social and economic coordination. He challenges both radicals and their critics to begin reformulating our whole notion of progressive economic change without reliance on central planning. National Economic Planning: What is Left? will challenge thinkers and policymakers of every political persuasion.

Author : Qamarul Hasan Siddiqi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Economic policy
ISBN : UOM:39015003642975

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Introduction to Economic Planning by Qamarul Hasan Siddiqi Pdf

Author : Gerhard Hultcrantz,Håkan Lindhoff,Jan Valdelin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015002685934

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Chinese Economic Planning by Gerhard Hultcrantz,Håkan Lindhoff,Jan Valdelin Pdf

Research report on socialist economic planning of China - outlines characteristics, history, objectives and methods of planning, describes institutional framework, decentralization of public administration, auditing and statistical services, etc., and includes contents and application of economic plans from 1949 to 1980. Bibliography pp. 260 to 274 and statistical tables.

Author : Pat Devine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429718713

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Democracy And Economic Planning by Pat Devine Pdf

Devine begins with an analysis of the theory and practice of capitalist planning, central planning and 'market socialism'. He argues that, while market socialism is currently favoured by many economists who reject both capitalism and the command planning of the Soviet model, it cannot fulfil the promises held out for it. In the remainder of the bo

Author : Geoffrey Denton,Murray Forsyth,Malcolm MacLennan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351854986

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Economic Planning and Policies in Britain, France and Germany by Geoffrey Denton,Murray Forsyth,Malcolm MacLennan Pdf

"Examining the innovations of economic policy in the UK, France and Germany in the 1960s, this book originally published in 1968, assesses the degree of success of these policies and draws conclusion for the oreintation of future policy. The book contrasts the long history of national planning in France with the equally long history of anti-planning ideology in Germany and by close examination of the actual policies, brings out the relaities that lie behind the public attitudes. It discusses the problems which lead to planning interventions, followed by a chapter on the UK, France and Germany. It examines in details particular adaptations of policy: namely Quantitative programming, monetary policy, fiscal policy, public expenditures, regional policy, prices and incomes policy and the balance of payments, comparing developments in all 3 countries. It also looks at the beginning of economic planning at the level of the EEC, with particular implications for British entry."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Nicholas R Lardy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351714846

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Chinese Economic Planning: Translations from Chi-Hua Ching-Chi by Nicholas R Lardy Pdf

This title was first published in 1978. This volume brings together translations of a series of fundamental articles that are of special value for those who seek to understand ChinaTs system of economic planning. These materials, which were intended to provide a basic introduction to the principles and techniques of economic planning being introduced during the First Five-Year Plan, originally appeared in two series in the journal Chi-hua ching-chi (Economic Planning), the official organ of the State Planning Commission and the State Economic Commission.

Author : Leigh Phillips,Michal Rozworski
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786635167

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The People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips,Michal Rozworski Pdf

Are multi-national corporations like Walmart and Amazon laying the groundwork for international socialism? For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the ultimate expressions of free-market capitalism. Their remarkable success appears to vindicate the old idea that modern society is too complex to be subjected to a plan. And yet, as Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski argue, much of the economy of the West is centrally planned at present. Not only is planning on vast scales possible, we already have it and it works. The real question is whether planning can be democratic. Can it be transformed to work for us? An engaging, polemical romp through economic theory, computational complexity, and the history of planning, The People’s Republic of Walmart revives the conversation about how society can extend democratic decision-making to all economic matters. With the advances in information technology in recent decades and the emergence of globe-straddling collective enterprises, democratic planning in the interest of all humanity is more important and closer to attainment than ever before.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:66025242

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National Economic Planning by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nancy Brooks,Kieran Donaghy,Gerrit-Jan Knaap
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1027 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780195380620

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The Oxford Handbook of Urban Economics and Planning by Nancy Brooks,Kieran Donaghy,Gerrit-Jan Knaap Pdf

This volume embodies a problem-driven and theoretically informed approach to bridging frontier research in urban economics and urban/regional planning. The authors focus on the interface between these two subdisciplines that have historically had an uneasy relationship. Although economists were among the early contributors to the literature on urban planning, many economists have been dismissive of a discipline whose leading scholars frequently favor regulations over market institutions, equity over efficiency, and normative prescriptions over positive analysis. Planners, meanwhile, even as they draw upon economic principles, often view the work of economists as abstract, not sensitive to institutional contexts, and communicated in a formal language spoken by few with decision making authority. Not surprisingly, papers in the leading economic journals rarely cite clearly pertinent papers in planning journals, and vice versa. Despite the historical divergence in perspectives and methods, urban economics and urban planning share an intense interest in many topic areas: the nature of cities, the prosperity of urban economies, the efficient provision of urban services, efficient systems of transportation, and the proper allocation of land between urban and environmental uses. In bridging this gap, the book highlights the best scholarship in planning and economics that address the most pressing urban problems of our day and stimulates further dialog between scholars in urban planning and urban economics.

Author : Michal Kalecki
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521179718

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Selected Essays on Economic Planning by Michal Kalecki Pdf

This 1987 book brings together the series of papers Kalecki wrote, between 1940 and his death in 1970, on economic planning, that contain the germ of his theory of growth in a socialist economy. They also contain an intriguing analysis of economic planning in a socialist society. This analysis anticipates many of the tenets of the disequilibrium school of economists of the 1970s. In his introduction, Jan Toporowski argues that Kalecki's work on the theory of growth in a socialist economy is incomplete and has often consequently been misrepresented without the analysis presented in these papers, which are in this edition. This book will be of interest to all those interested in Kaecki's work, the economics of planning, and economic policy-making.

Author : E.F.M. Durbin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135033187

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Politics of Economic Planning by E.F.M. Durbin Pdf

The issue of planning prompted some of the fiercest debate in mid-twentieth century economics. Politics of Economic Planning collects together a number of papers from journals and contributed books that examine the problems of economic planning in a free society. They fall into three groups: Part 1 explains the idea of socialism and defines it in relation to democracy. Part 2 discusses problems of economic planning both in relation to political economy on the practice of planning and with the application of the theory of value to the conditions of a centrally directed economy. Part 3 examines the nature of economics.