Central Planning Quotes

• The effect of the people's agreeing that there must be central planning, without agreeing on the ends, will be rather as if a group of people were to commit themselves to take a journey together without agreeing where they want to go; with the result that they may all have to make a journey which most of them do not want at all.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Journey, People, Together

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 5 : Planning and Democracy, 1940 - 1943.

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• My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.

  John Grierson

  Loss, Views, Would Be

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• La curiosa tarea de la economía es demostrar a los hombres lo poco que saben realmente sobre lo que imaginan que pueden diseñar.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Hombres, Diseño, Libertad

  "El error fatal: los errores del socialismo". Libro de Friedrich Hayek. Capítulo 5: "The Fatal Conceit", 1988.

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• Government central planning means over-riding other people's plans.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mean, Government, People

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• Planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals and, as such, essential if central planning on a large scale is to be possible.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Essentials, Enforcement, Coercion

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• Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed.

  Thomas Sowell

  Nannies, Planning, States

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• Si se parte de la creencia de que la persona más informada de la Tierra no tiene ni el uno por ciento del conocimiento total de la Tierra, eso echa por tierra la ingeniería social, la planificación económica centralizada, el activismo judicial y otras innumerables nociones ambiciosas favorecidas por la izquierda política.

  Thomas Sowell

  Engineering, Knowledgeable Person, Political

  "No estés tan seguro". www.nationalreview.com. 16 de mayo de 2007.

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• If the central contest of the twentieth century has pitted capitalism against socialism, then F. A. Hayek has been its central figure. He helped us to understand why capitalism won by a knockout. It was Hayek who elaborated the basic argument demonstrating that central planning was nothing else but an impoverishing fantasy.

  Kenneth Minogue

  Planning, Fantasy, Argument

  "Giants Refreshed II: The Escape from Serfdom: Friedrich von Hayek and the Restoration of Liberty" in Times Literary Supplement ( p. 11), January 14, 2000.

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• El libre mercado no sólo es más eficiente en la toma de decisiones que incluso el más sabio organismo de planificación central, sino que, lo que es aún más importante, el libre mercado mantiene el poder económico ampliamente disperso.

  Milton Friedman

  Decisión, Importante, Cuerpo

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• Central planning doesn't work. A little bit of it is a drag. A lot is fatal.

  Bill Bonner

  Littles, Planning, Drag

  "What to Do in the Event of an Out of Control Money System". www.businessinsider.com. August 26, 2011.

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• The Statist deflects public scorn for the consequences of his own central planning by blaming the very industry he is sabotaging for supply dislocations and price hikes.

  Mark Levin

  Planning, Blame, Scorn

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• Central planning didn't work for Stalin or Mao, and it won't work for an entrepreneur either.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Entrepreneur, Planning, Mao

  Michael Bloomberg, Matthew Winkler (1997). “Bloomberg by Bloomberg”, Wiley

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• Are you really questioning the wisdom of central planning? Because the happy citizens of Cuba and North Korea beg to differ.

  Jonathan Gruber

  Korea, Cuba, Citizens

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• Central banks have gotten out of the central banking business and into the central planning business, meaning that they are devoted to raising up-if they can-economic growth and employment through the dubious means of suppressing interest rates and printing money. The nice thing about gold is that you can't print it.

  James Grant

  Money, Nice, Mean

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• Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents.

  Anthony Gregory

  Peace, War, Done

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• Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or "playing God.This is consistent with the fundamentalist vision of an unconstrained God and a highly constrained man.

  Thomas Sowell

  Men, Vision, Society

  Thomas Sowell (2007). “A Conflict of Visions: Idealogical Origins of Political Struggles”, p.49, Basic Books

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• If the people are led to believe that scarce resources are best channeled in a direction that producers and consumers would not choose on their own, the result must necessarily be central planning.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Filosofía, Creer, Gente

  Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. (2013). “Fascism versus Capitalism”, p.79, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Permítanme decir que creo que la historia económica de los últimos 150 años muestra claramente que si se quiere industrializar un país en un periodo corto, digamos 20 años, y no se tiene un sector privado bien desarrollado, una clase empresarial, entonces la planificación central es importante.

  Manmohan Singh

  País, Pensamiento, Años

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• El objetivo, claramente enunciado por los líderes de la CNUMAD, es provocar un cambio en el actual sistema de naciones independientes. El futuro será un gobierno mundial con una planificación centralizada a cargo de las Naciones Unidas. Se espera que el miedo a las crisis medioambientales - sean reales o no - conduzca a - el cumplimiento

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Gobiernoreal, independiente y mundial

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