Principles of Private and Public Planning

Principles of Private and Public Planning (1951) looks at a key economic question: plan or no plan? By examining the economic theories of both planned and unplanned economies together with human and societal impulses, it aims to provide both an analysis and overview of the topic.

Part 1. General Principles Private Planning 1. Economic Planning in Economic Theory 2. Resolution and Plan 3. Economic Impulses and their Psychic Sources 4. The Economic Time Relations 5. The Preparatory Plan Thinking 6. Sacrifice and Compensation 7. The Calculation Problems of the Planner 8. Capitalism as an Instrument for Economic Planning Part 2. Principles and Systems of Public Planning 9. Public Planning Determined by Opposite Tendencies and Ideologies 10. Socialism and Communism 11. Fascism and Nazism 12. Sector Systems versus Totalitarianism 13. Liberalistic Ideologies and Systems 14. National Capitalism 15. Labour Capitalism 16. Property and Economic Planning 17. Principles of Social Planning 18. Remarks on Financial and Monetary Planning 19. Final Remarks