Re: Participatory Planning

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 3 Mar 1994, Jim Devine wrote:

> BTW, isn't the giant  bell a simple result to deranged incentives?
> i.e., the planners decided that the output of bells would be measured
> in tons?
>
No.  Barkley's whole point was that the giant bell was a product of
the Czarist era, and that Russian "gigantomania" predates the Soviet
period.  I think he's right on that.  I will reply to some of the
more substantive points once I've finished grading midterm exams!

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Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University
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