[lbo-talk] "Central Planning"

Andy F andy274 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 23 08:17:55 PDT 2007


On 8/23/07, Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:


> With that in mind, central planning indeed came to Eastern Europe too early,
> but not because of insufficient computational capacity to draw adequate
> plans, but because of insufficient modernization of social relations, in the
> sense described by Max Weber in _Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of
> Capitalism_.

I'm not familiar with Weber except in outline, but did the same hold for relatively modern areas like Bohemia and Hungary?

-- Andy



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