👉The table of contents so far is here.
Chapter 10: Details of Economic Planning
The three-year world economic plan, which forms the core of a sustainable planned economy, is a global plan for the entire world, and serves as the standard for economic plans in each of the Zones that make up the World Commonwealth. As such, it is also a template for the plans of each Zone.
However, since the world economic plan is more of a cap indicating the upper limit of production activity in each Zone rather than a production target, its description is general and can be thought of as a kind of introduction to the economic plans of each Zone.
As for its structure, first an overview is presented at the beginning that gives an overall picture of the three-year plan. This is the introduction to each detail of the plan, and at the same time it also serves as a summary of the three-year plan.
Next, the energy plan is presented. This is the foundation for realizing a sustainable planned energy supply with the aim of correcting excessive energy consumption, which is a major cause of environmental destruction. It can be said to be a major part of the world economic plan.
The central point is the plan for the supply of renewable energy, but it should be noted that the supply of fossil fuels will not be eliminated. Fossil fuels will not be eliminated altogether, but will be supplied in a planned and reduced manner to supplement renewable energy. In that respect, it is the opposite of the energy composition in a capitalist economy.
Next are the details of the production plan. Here, as we saw last time, the essence of a sustainable planned economy is that industries are classified not by industry type, but by which of the major elements of the global environment they place a burden on.
In other words, the classification criteria are air-burden industries, soil-burden industries, water-resource-burden industries, and biological-resource-burden industries. Comprehensive burdening industries that span multiple elements are classified in an overlapping manner.
The details of this production plan are the specifics of the world planned economy. In formulating the plan, the regional planning volumes for each of the five Grand-Zones in the World Commonwealth will be taken into account, but production plans will not be divided among the five Zones to avoid a scramble for each other's volumes.
👉The papers published on this blog are meant to expand upon my On Communism.
