Awara — The Government and Business Approve New Steps to Improve Business Climate in Russia

The Plan of the Ministry of Economic Development for the Transformation of the Business Climate Was Supplemented with New Measures Vladimir Putin set an ambitious goal for the Ministry of Economic Development: by 2024, Russia should rise to 20th in the World Bank’s Doing Business rating (now our country occupies 31st place out of 190)....

Russia and China have managed economies along with market-based economies. This is proving to be be a good balance between hierarchical technocracy and economic liberalism. Planning is working for both countries, seemingly contradicting the argument of economic liberals that any government "intrusion" is inefficient and reduces outcomes. At the same time, economic liberals also generally oppose direct democracy as "rabble rule," opting instead for what amounts to political illiberalism, which is what "bourgeois liberalism" really is as the dominance of the ownership-managerial class.

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The Government and Business Approve New Steps to Improve Business Climate in Russia

Sputnik International — Putin's Meeting With Russian Business to Focus on 2025 Economic Development Plan

The meeting between the representatives of Russian business with President Vladimir Putin to be held on Monday will be devoted to the discussions on the plan to jump-start the country's economy, a source familiar with the agenda of the talks told RIA Novosti on Monday.

"In a nutshell, they are going to discuss how business and the government will develop the plan of the economic growth that should reach a faster rate than the world average by 2020, as well as the medium term program until 2025,” the source told the agency. President Vladimir Putin in his address to the Federal Assembly charged the government with the task to prepare and adopt a complex plan of actions for 2017-2025 that would provide measures allowing to reach national economy growth rates outrunning world rates no later than 2019-2020....

The crisis due to the falling oil price and imposition of sanctions was a wake-up call to modernize and streamline the Russian economy.

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Putin's Meeting With Russian Business to Focus on 2025 Economic Development Plan

J. W. Mason — Socialze Finance

We already live in a planned economy. Why not make it a democratic one?

You want to read this.

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J. W. Mason | assistant professor of economics at John Jay College, City University of New York and a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute

Nick Johnson — The philosophy of economic policy-making: Keynes on ‘The End of Laissez-Faire’

Keeper Keynes quote.

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The philosophy of economic policy-making: Keynes on ‘The End of Laissez-Faire’
Nick Johnson

Peter Cooper — There Would Be No Capitalism Without the State

Why capitalism is necessarily state capitalism to one degree or another. Capitalism is dependent on a state or a comparable institution. Individuals acting independently are not self-organizing or self-regulating. Institutions are required and they are provided by governance. Of course, there are many ways to organize governance. Governance under capitalism has been, is and will continue to be oligarchical until governance of the people, by the people, and for the people is established and that his ultimately up to the people. Since history has demonstrated a liberal bias, one can hope that this is the direction of progression socially, politically and economically. But it is not going to just happen. People have to take the reins and in order to do so effectively, they must be prepared to do so. It is in the interest of the oligarchy to see to it that this never happens.

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There Would Be No Capitalism Without the State
Peter Cooper