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Chapter 8: Planning Organizations
8.3. Organizations related to the zonal planned economy
The forefront of a sustainable planned economy are the Zones, which are the constituent entities of the World Commonwealth. Each Zone is usually single and is also the economic planning entity that formulates and operates its own economic plan within the framework of the world economic plan.
However, small Zones often do not have the economic base to operate a planned economy on their own. Therefore, these small Zones form unions with neighboring Zones of the same size or larger Zones, and operate a planned economy in the unit of a Joint- Zone. The main role of the Joint-Zone is to operate such a common economic plan.
These Zonal economic plans are formulated based on the Grand-Zone in the world economic plan, taking into consideration economic cooperation within the the Grand-Zone, and the practical aspects of such Grand-Zonal economic cooperation are handled by the economic cooperation councils of the five Grand-Zone. The councils are composed of representatives of production enterprises that are responsible for the fields of economic cooperation within the Grand-Zone, and after concluding a Grand-Zonal economic cooperation agreement, they obtain approval and resolution from the Grand-Zonal the Commons' Convention.
Following the Grand-Zonal economic cooperation agreement, the process moves on to the formulation of economic plans for each Zone. Whether single or joint, the body that formulates the Zonal economic plan is the Economic Planning Conference. This is not an administrative body like the State Planning Commission, which was the central body of the planned economy in the former Soviet Union, but a deliberative body jointly run by the production enterprises that are the subject of the planned economy.
It is structured as a conference body whose members are the planning officers of each production enterprise, and it has an attached secretariat that provides practical support for the conference. The conference is a tripartite system in which the general industry committee, agriculture, forestry, fisheries committee, and pharmaceutical committe are branched out in accordance with the three types of plans: general, agriculture-forestry-fisheries, and pharmaceutical, and representative departments of consumer business organizations in the Provincial Areas or Quasi-Zones, which are the units for formulating consumption plans, are also established as observer committees.
Of the three committees, the general industry committee is divided into special subcommittees that roughly follow the industrial classification of the input-output table that forms the basis of economic plans, and each subcommittee formulates its own plan after discussion. The agriculture, forestry and fisheries committee is also divided into special subcommittees, but the pharmaceutical committee itself doubles as a special subcommittee.
Regarding the energy plan, which is a prerequisite for the economic plan, the Energy Planning Council, made up of energy-related businesses such as oil refineries and electricity, is established as a subordinate organ of the Economic Planning Conference, and the Economic Planning Conference deliberates and passes on the energy plan proposed by the Council.
On the other hand, the Commons' Convention, which is involved in the administration of the Zone, is also involved in the formulation of the economic plan, but it does not take the lead. The role of the Commons' Convention is to re-deliberate and approve the plans passed by the Economic Planning Conference. In that respect, the relationship between the Commons' Convention and the Economic Planning Conference can be said to be equivalent to that of a sort of upper house (≒ the Commons' Convention) and lower house (≒ the Economic Planning Conference). However, the Commons' Convention cannot completely reject a plan, it can only partially disapprove or send it back.
In the case of economic planning at the Joint-Zonal base, a Commons' Convention is not established in the joint territorial area, but instead the Policy Coordination Council has the right to approve the plan. To this extent, the Policy Coordination Council plays a role equivalent to the Commons' Convention in a single Zone.
👉The papers published on this blog are meant to expand upon my On Communism.
