The intellectual case for planning was never very strong…

Official opposition to overall economic planning and planning controls has been characterized in a recent editorial as "Papa knows best." But it is precisely…

— John James Cowperthwaite

Mao challenged the idea that economic planning would dissolve conflicts of interest among the people. He saw it dialectically - conflicts between intellectuals and…

— Harry Magdoff

Economic planning is nothing more than the forcible superseding of other people's plans by the powerful elite backed up by the brute force of…

— Walter E. Williams

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

— George Reisman

What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.

— Thomas Sowell

Why should we engage in economic planning

— George Reisman

All sectors of the national economy should make scrupulous arrangements for economic planning and guidance to boost production by tapping every possible reserve and…

— Kim Jong-un

In most circles, the idea of economic planning has been in disrepute most of the time and, particularly in America, has almost carried connotations…

— Gunnar Myrdal

“Keynes knew perfectly well that fascist economic policy could never have succeeded in the long-run without war, occupation and exploitation.”

— Tony Judt

“Even after the Allies emerged triumphant in 1945, these concerns were not forgotten: depression and fascism remained ever-present in men's minds. The urgent question…

— Tony Judt

“Keynes died in 1946, exhausted by his wartime efforts. But he had long since demonstrated that neither capitalism nor liberalism would survive very long…

— Tony Judt

“As Keynes wrote, with devastating understatement, ‘The age of economic internationalism was not particularly successful in avoiding war.”

— Pankaj Mishra

Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was not a…

— Mancur Olson

“Economists who simply advised leaving the economy alone, governments whose first instincts, apart from protecting the gold standard by deflationary policies, was to stick…

— Eric J. Hobsbawm

The major reason for Keynes's rejection of communism was simply that he could scarcely identify with the grubby proletariat.

— Murray Rothbard