Government central planning means over-riding other…

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

— Jonathan Gruber

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

— Anthony Gregory

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

— Bill Bonner

Planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals and, as such, essential if central…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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

— Michael Bloomberg

The free market is not only a more efficient decision maker than even the wisest central planning body, but even more important, the free…

— Milton Friedman

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

— Thomas Sowell

“Why does socialist central planning not work? The means of production are not held privately, so there cannot be any exchange markets for them…

— Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr

If the central contest of the twentieth century has pitted capitalism against socialism, then F. A. Hayek has been its central figure. He helped…

— Kenneth Minogue

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…

— Thomas Sowell

The Statist deflects public scorn for the consequences of his own central planning by blaming the very industry he is sabotaging for supply dislocations…

— Mark Levin

The objective, clearly enunciated by the leaders of UNCED, is to bring about a change in the present system of independent nations. The future…

— Dixie Lee Ray

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…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Capitalism does millions of things better than the alternatives. It balances supply and demand in an elegant way that central planning has never come…

— Jeremy Grantham

“The fact that bonuses were paid monthly also kept everyone focused on the present, while innovation is about making sacrifices today in order to…

— Daron Acemoğlu