Description:ExcerptIn days when the air rings with the cries of various competing economic planners, it is appropriate for socialists to say in some detail what they think about economic planning, what their own plans are and what power they would put behind them. Especially in a year of presidential elections some such discussion, less authoritative than a party platform but more explanatory than any platform or speech about it can be, is in order.I emphasize discussion. This book is a discussion, and it will be evident that there are differences of opinion or emphasis among the writers. There are areas that they would admit need such exploration and questions not yet decided in advance of action by the most ardent socialists. Nevertheless the basic agreements in this book are obvious. Socialists and even that rather numerous tribe of near- socialists are convinced that our present planless capitalism, with its crazy combination of mergers and continual governmental interference with a laissez faire philosophy, is doomed. Plan cannot be plastered on capitalism and have it recover the gamblers' orgy of unsound prosperity which the Coolidge era was.I--and here I think I speak for most socialists--would go a step farther. You cannot creep up on capitalism and painlessly inject enlightened planning into it so that, by its own technical processes, it will tend unconsciously to socialize itself. Conceivably some planning devices might be . . .We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Socialist Planning and a Socialist Program. To get started finding Socialist Planning and a Socialist Program, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Description: ExcerptIn days when the air rings with the cries of various competing economic planners, it is appropriate for socialists to say in some detail what they think about economic planning, what their own plans are and what power they would put behind them. Especially in a year of presidential elections some such discussion, less authoritative than a party platform but more explanatory than any platform or speech about it can be, is in order.I emphasize discussion. This book is a discussion, and it will be evident that there are differences of opinion or emphasis among the writers. There are areas that they would admit need such exploration and questions not yet decided in advance of action by the most ardent socialists. Nevertheless the basic agreements in this book are obvious. Socialists and even that rather numerous tribe of near- socialists are convinced that our present planless capitalism, with its crazy combination of mergers and continual governmental interference with a laissez faire philosophy, is doomed. Plan cannot be plastered on capitalism and have it recover the gamblers' orgy of unsound prosperity which the Coolidge era was.I--and here I think I speak for most socialists--would go a step farther. You cannot creep up on capitalism and painlessly inject enlightened planning into it so that, by its own technical processes, it will tend unconsciously to socialize itself. Conceivably some planning devices might be . . .We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Socialist Planning and a Socialist Program. To get started finding Socialist Planning and a Socialist Program, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.