The visible hand : the fundamentals of economic planning / Gerald Sirkin.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968.Description: xi, 192 pages ; 21 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:- 338.9
- HD 82 .S559 1968
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BOOKS | Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks | The Karl H. Niebyl Collection | HD 82 .S559 1968 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | NPML19120002 |
Includes index.
1. The confusions and illusions of planning -- 2. The agenda of government -- 3. "Planning" — a word in search of meaning -- 4. Government in the economy: portrait with warts -- 5. Planning in developed countries -- 6. Government in backward and underdeveloped economies -- 7. Planning for development: India -- 8. Guidelines for the visible hand.
"The Visible Hand was born in a seminar at the University of Bombay when, after I had made some critical remarks on economic policy making in India, a colleague suggested I was against planning. In answering that charge I became aware that my definition of 'planning' was fuzzy, that my hosts' definition was fuzzy, and that our fuzzy definitions were not the same. The result was continual misunderstanding. My attempt to clear up that misunderstanding has led to this study of the meaning of planning, the relation of planning to the general question of the role of government in the economy, and the comparison between planning and alternative methods of policy making." -- From the preface.
Donation from Karl and Elizabeth Niebyl.
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