Nikhil Menon on Planning Democracy
Ideas of India
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By the turn of the century Laissez-Faire was gone by 1950s planning was very much mainstream especially for developing countries where import substitution and if somewhat plan economy was the thing to do. None of these people would have been called anti-national or extremist in the department there so that's what I was alluding to when I said group think it was more than in India. If you were a little bit off this kind of median opinion you were immediately suspect either not good enough or to be sidelined or just plain anti-nationalist, he says.
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