Gosplan

He found work as an economist for Gosplan, the government planning agency.

In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

He found work as an economist for Gosplan, the government planning agency.

In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

So, the firm would be given a plan target, such as 200 tons of boots; and then the incentive structure thereby created even offset by the various additional incentives provided by the Gosplan meant that they would choose the heaviest and cheapest leather and make only one size of boots.

Second Best and Socialist Calculation, Eric Crampton | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

The researchers coded the cases made for the vehicle allocation as “economic,” for example a note from Gosplan explaining why this allocation was vital to fulfill the plan, or “political,” for example support from a political patron.

Keep on Truckin', Stalin-Style, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Waxman and Markey's 648-page "discussion draft" of the climate bill with its descriptions of permitted light bulbs is so complex, confusing and impossible to understand, let alone implement without breaking some regulation, that it will make the old central planning of the Soviet Gosplan seem like a back of the envelope outline by comparison.

In Some Ways, Cap and Trade Is Back to the Future 2009

The gist was pretty much the Misesian critique of state-socialist central planning applied to social anarchist “economics” to argue that even a central planning agency staffed by elected facilitators will just end up evolving into a permanent staff of technocrats and inevitably ossify into a de facto Gosplan bureaucracy, and hence statism.

Open thread on: localism, decentralism, anarchism, thick conceptions of libertarianism, and the U.S. Constitution 2009

Don't be surprised if the courts, and even Congress itself, also ultimately balk at a program that treats each auto maker differently, while relying on the Gosplan-like discretion of federal regulators somehow to conjure into being a new national fleet that averages 35 mpg, a 40% increase, by 2020.

Decaffeinated 2008

Don't be surprised if the courts, and even Congress itself, also ultimately balk at a program that treats each auto maker differently, while relying on the Gosplan-like discretion of federal regulators somehow to conjure into being a new national fleet that averages 35 mpg, a 40% increase, by 2020.

Decaffeinated Holman W. Jenkins 2008

Don't be surprised if the courts, and even Congress itself, ultimately balk at a program that treats every auto maker differently, relying on Gosplan-like discretion by federal regulators somehow to conjure into being a new national fleet that averages 35 miles per gallon, a 40% increase, by 2020.

Decaffeinated 2008

From 1992 to 1997, I worked in Russia for the World Bank, and I met many people who were formerly part of Gosplan, the central planning bureau of the Soviet Union.

Dennis Whittle: Are aid "partnerships" dangerous? 2008