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Question
Define economic planning.
Solution
Economic Planning is “collective control or suppression of private activities of production and exchange”– Robbins. “Economic Planning in the widest sense is the deliberate direction by persons in – charge of large resources of economic activity towards chosen ends”– Dalton.
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