The idea of planning economy and engineering social life has often been linked with Communist regimes' will of control.
However, the persuasion that social and economic processes could and should be regulated was by no means limited to them.
Intense debates on these issues developed already during the First World War in Europe and became globalized during the World Economic crisis.
During the Cold War, such discussions fuelled competition between two models of economic and social organisation bu.
Walter De Gruyter Planning in cold war europe, paperback/michel christian
