👉The table of contents so far is here.
Chapter 9: Time and space frameworks for planning
9.4. Scheduling of Zonal economic plans
Economic plans in the Zones are at the forefront of planned economies, but unlike the national economic plans of the former Soviet Union's "Socialism in One Country," they are branch economic plans that are based on the global world economic plan, and therefore the world economic plan takes priority in terms of their formulation schedule.
As a result, while both plan cycles are three years, the three-year starting point of the world economic three-year plan and the Zonal economic three-year plan differ, and the Zonal economic plan takes precedence.
The formulation process of the Zonal economic plan begins when the world economic three-year plan is passed and enacted at the World Commonwealth General Assembly and goes into effect. From there, it takes about three to four months to formulate the Zonal economic plan, and once it has been passed and enacted at each Zonal Commons' Convention, the first planning year begins.
As a concrete example of such a series of schedules, if we set the coming into force of the world economic plan to January for easy understanding, the formulation process of the Zonal economic plan would begin in the same month, and it would be passed and enacted by April or May of the same year, with the first planning year of the Zonal economic plan starting.
The Zonal economic plans are organized in a multi-layered manner, incorporating the general production plan (Division A), the agriculture, forestry and fisheries plan (Division B), the pharmaceutical plan (Division C), and the local consumption plans, with the energy plan serving as the foundation for all plans.
Division A is formulated based on the energy plan, and the remaining Divisions B, C, and consumption plans are formulated based on Division A. Therefore, in the practical formulation work, the energy plan and Division A take precedence, and the formulation work for the remaining plans follows accordingly.
Furthermore, the consumption plan formulated for each greater local area is inseparably related to Division A and B which relate to the entire Zone, and especially to Division B in relation to the supply of food, which is the core of the consumption plan. For this reason, consumption plans will be formulated almost in parallel with Division B.
However, in a federal Zone, if a system were adopted in which each Quasi-Zone (Zonelet) formulates its own economic plan, the economic plans of each Quasi-Zone would have to fit within the economic planning cycle of the federal Zone, resulting in a complex system in which the formulation of economic plans for a Zone and each Quasi-Zone economic plan would be carried out simultaneously.
👉The papers published on this blog are meant to expand upon my On Communism.
