Mises Daily
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David Elton Trueblood
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[Excerpted from chapter 1 in Central Planning and Neomercantilism (ed. Shoeck, 1964).] The whole concept of planning seems to depend on some form of determinism. This determinism is implicit in the behavioral approach to psychology and is illustrated in experiments on animals. The famous work of Pavlov in Russia has obviously influenced the