Subprime Lending and Our Financial Crisis: The Result of Centralized Planning Planning for competition works wonders.

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They believe society can only accomplish this if there are strong enough intentions to set and meet goals through centralized planning.

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It has a centralized planning approach that moves quickly and achieves results.

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Here in India, land pooling is being floated as an alternative to the centralized master planning approach in the nation.

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Mr. STEVEN SCHOONER (Co-Director, Government Procurement Law Program, George Washington University): The fear at this point is there does not seem to be a centralized, sophisticated, well-organized planning institution within the government that's going to make good, rational, long-term decisions as to how the reconstruction is done before the government starts throwing money at the problems.

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Plato was in vogue then, and Plato believed in central planning by intellectuals in the context of communal property, centralized state education, state centralized cultural offerings and communal family structure.

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