Defined Quote by Thomas Sowell

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

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

“A “planned economy” destroys Government because when men use force in an attempt to control productive energies, they have no means of knowing real…

— Rose Wilder Lane

The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody…

— Richard P. Feynman

The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own…

— Ludwig von Mises

Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.

— Alfred Marshall

Why should we engage in economic planning

— George Reisman

Planning other people's actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— Thomas Sowell

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

— Jose Saramago

The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.

— Anonymous

Government planning not only fails; it tends to produce outcomes that are the opposite of what its proponents say that they favor. The only…

— Llewellyn Rockwell