Thursday, February 28, 2013

Central Planning and Neomercantilism by Helmut Schoeck

Status: Almost Complete (v.3)

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Page 7: par. 2: planning

It is the concept of total plannnig that necessitates the role of the Party, which is the General Staff of the Movement.

Page 7: par. 2: population

That is why the present membership of the Party amounts to a very small percentage of the total Soviet popualtion.

Page 24: par. 1: altogether

Public measures find favor that promise to mitigate or altogther frustrate the results of the price mechanism in a free market when, as in agriculture, technological developments require a major shift of workers or other major changes.

Page 58: Footnote 10: municipality

The decision by a muncipality or by a state that certain activities are restricted to specified areas may be wholly necessary, although even zoning may come to express merely a desire for tidiness, for expression of power, or for differential financial advantage.

Page 93: par. 2: planning

Originally, central plannnig was not really an elaborated and major part of Marxist theory.

Page 94: par. 0: Socialists

It has been noted that most of the schemes, as well as the semantics used to sell them, started by the Socalists in Britain after 1945 were superficial imitations of military operations.

Page 103: par. 1: consequences

[...] once more respectable in the face of the failures and consequenecs of planning in communist and socialist countries.

Page 104: par. 4: manipulation

In an age of computers and scientism it seems probable that socialism in its various forms will no longer try to win through sentimental, nostalgic ideologies and ideals but through the production and manipuation of research data and the presentation of “compelling” statistics.

Page 113: par. 1: governmental

Contemptuous govenmental attitudes toward business, as shown by the resort to laws which are not linked to moral standards, are not likely to produce desirable responses.

Page 120: Footnote 10: substances

(1) Installation of new machinery with electronic detection devices to reject bottles containing alien substancees will cost the company $100,000 annually for twenty years in amortization;

Page 122: Footnote 23: Wrong quotation mark

Johs Andenaes, “General Prevention—Illusion or Reality?“ Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology and Police Science, XLIII (1952), 186-87.

Page 134: par. 2 (very bottom of page): areas

This, in turn, may lead to a reconsideration or reorientation of present programs for demolishing and rebuilding large urban aeas.

Page 135: Footnote 8: assembled

“Execution” can take many months before individual parcels of land are acquired, cleared, and asembled for offer to prospective purchasers.

Page 151: par. 1: million

It refused to buy acceptances directly from business, insisting on purchasing them from intermediary acceptance houses, and from only those with a capital of over $1 millon.

Page 160: par. 5 (very bottom of page): Congressional

Such reasoning, plus that of Dr. Means, along with the publicity attendant on the Kefauver Hearings, led to Congressionl consideration of price notification legislation, [...]

Page 169: par. 2: formerly

Fiberglass has appeared in a variety of uses that were formely monopolized by steel—auto bodies, for example.

Page 173: par. 3: administrative

Dr. Means’ concept of “admistrative inflation,” in fact, under analysis seems little else but cost-push inflation; and he concedes, perhaps inadvertently, [...]

Page 187: par. 1: economy

All admit readily that the United States, even after the limitations on economic freedom which have taken place since the 1930’s, is the world’s most conspicuous example of a free-enterprise econ-nomy.

Page 196: Footnote 8: Relationships

Subcommittee on Inter-American Economic Relationsips of the Joint Economic Committee,

Page 187: Footnote 17: Lachaume

Pierre Lloste-Lachaume, Réhabilitation du libéralisme (Paris: Éditions SÉDIF, 1950), p. 320;

Page 201: par. 2: initiative

Hence, wartime economic planning, though in some sense a genuine exercise in the centralization of intitative, could proceed without breakdown mainly by the use of the simple devices of prohibition, rationing, and arbitrary pricing.

Page 222: Accidental margin separation in letter "M"

MacLeish, Archibald, 4

Malinowski, Bronislaw Kasper, 42



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Page 71 (83), Footnote 3, Footnote 7... Footnote 6 was on the previous page.

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