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Planned economy

Planned economy
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Overview

type of economic system

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  1. Marriage, property, speech, tradition, race, family, people, and State, are each links in a chain--separate parts which have a more or less high or low origin. Economically they are justified by the surplus derived from the advantages of uninterrupted work and multiple production, as weighed against the disadvantages of greater expense in barter and the difficulty of making things last. (The working parts are…

    Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power

    Close in meaning to Planned economy; the term itself is not named.

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  2. As regards the effects upon the material condition of the wages-receiving class, since it seems clear that capital increases faster than improvements, and probably faster even than population, it follows that in countries where the laboring-classes are evidently growing in intelligence, they gain in wages with the progress of society. Such certainly seems to be the teaching of Mr. Giffen’s late studies (see Book IV…

    John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy

    Close in meaning to Planned economy; the term itself is not named.

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  3. Without dwelling any longer on the physiocrats and omitting quite a number of Italian economists who in some more or less ingenious ideas came close to a correct analysis of the nature of commodity,[27] we pass at once to the first Briton who elaborated the general system of bourgeois economics, Sir James Steuart.[28] His idea of exchange value as well as all the abstract categories of political economy still seem…

    Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

    Close in meaning to Planned economy; the term itself is not named.

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Philosophers who discussed Planned economy

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Place in the tradition

Part of Communism.

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