I don't know of any Russian economist or politician or publicist or actually anybody, of any political persuasion, including those attached to the Communist Party or further left, who advocate a return to central planning. (Including Roy Medvedev BTW.) Their ideal is either Sweden or China.
OTOH everybody who is not a superdiehard liberal ideologue thinks that the transition could have been handled much much much more effectively.
--- On Wed, 6/17/09, SA <s11131978 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Of course. But what I find striking is that in every one of
> these countries there were batteries of accomplished and
> dedicated economists and technical experts, some of whom no
> doubt remained devoted to egalitarian and democratic
> economic ideals right up to the end. These economists had
> decades of practical experience dealing with the problems
> and possibilities of planned economies. And yet one almost
> never hears of any who are willing to say - today - that
> from their experience the planned economy could work well,
> it only needed certain political and structural changes,
> here's how it could be done. Maybe there's a whole
> intellectual movement of such ex-planners that I just
> haven't heard about, but anyway I haven't heard about them.
>
> SA
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