"The case for socialism"
3. On the other hand it is equally essential that the programme of the Labour Party
should retain the loyality of a very large proportion of its followers. A strong and
united party organisation is essential for the execution of a complex programme.
The importance of planning
The term is used in current speech to describe widely different types of economic reforms. It
is necessary to distinguish between:
a) Planning, meaning simply the intervention of the Government in a particulat industry
at a time when the greater part of the economy still remains in private hands, and
b) Planning which results in the general supersession of individual enterprise as the
source of economic decisions.
Summary
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
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