👉The table of contents so far is here.
Chapter 9: Time and space frameworks for planning
9.5. Geographical scope of Zonal economic plans
Economic plans (Zonal economic plans) formulated on each Zonal basis, based on the general framework of the world economic plan of the World Commonwealth and in accordance with a series of linked scheduling, will basically apply to the geographical area covered by the Zonal administration.
In this regard, it should be noted that depending on the political structure of the Zone, the geographical scope of application of Zonal economic plans differs between a single Zone and a Joint-Zone consisting of the combination of multiple Zones.
In the case of a single Zone, the Zonal economic plan corresponds to the geographical area over which the administrative power of the Zone extends. However, there are two types of Zonal structures: a decentralized federal type and a more centralized unitary type. In the case of a federal type, the decision as to whether or not each of the Quasi-Zones (Zonelets) that make up the federal Zone should formulate its own economic plan is left to the independent judgment of each of the federa lZones.
If each Zonelet formulates its own economic plan, the Zone's planned economy will be decentralized. One problem with this type of geographical decentralization is that it may lead to competition over the allocation of benefits between the Zonelets. This problem also arose when decentralization reforms were implemented in the planned economy system of the former Soviet Union, which was once a federal state.
If competition for the allocation of benefits intensifies, it could lead to structural factors such as corruption, and there is a risk that the schedule for formulating the Zonal economic plan will be delayed. To avoid such disadvantages, it is desirable for economic planning to be centralized even in a federal Zone; however, even if a Zonelet formulates its own economic plan, it will be within the framework of the economic plan of the entire Zone, and therefore the Zonelet 's economic plan will still constitute part of the Zonal economic plan.
In contrast, one of the main aims of a Joint-Zone is for small and medium-sized Zones that do not have an industrial base sufficient to formulate economic plans on their own to join together and formulate a joint, common economic plan in the form of a division of labor while making use of the economic characteristics of each Zone. In this case, the common economic plan will therefore be applied in common to all of the Zones that make up the joint.
Incidentally, the Grand-Zone, which is made up of wider continental entity, is not the entity that formulates economic plan, but is simply geographical entity that represents economic cooperation and other mutual cooperation within the Zone. Therefore, economic cooperation within a Grand-Zone is itself an intra-regional agreement and not an economic plan, but it supplements the Zonal economic plan and, so to speak, forms the outer part of each Zonal economic plan.
👉The papers published on this blog are meant to expand upon my On Communism.
