Affair Quote by Friedrich August von Hayek

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

— Thomas Sowell

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

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

The one irrefutable lesson of the entire postwar period [is] contradicting the notion that rigid government controls are essential to economic development.

— Ronald Reagan

“We cannot simultaneously pursue democracy, national determination and economic globalisation.”

— Edward Luce

To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The problems of the global economy are not based in perception, but in the reality of prices, balance sheets and income statements, vast concentrations…

— Charles Hugh Smith

Today the universal common good poses problems of world-wide dimensions, which cannot be adequately tackled or solved except by the efforts of public authorities…

— Pope John XXIII

These are national problems that require national solutions.

— Thomas Menino

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

It is impossible for the nation to develop unless states develop, the process of policy planning also has to change from 'top to bottom'…

— Narendra Modi

When I consider a problem, it is now instinctive for me to think about the institutions involved, the authorizing environment, possible coalitions, likely opposition,…

— Robert Zoellick