The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s5.25

c11.s5.25

Students of anthropology and economic history will admit that Europe does not have to get admitted into a Freshman class, as Breloer seems to suggest, for elementary lessons in economic planning as understood in primitive, ancient, medieval or even pre-war modern times. But economic planning is, after all, not an old category. It is a post-war phenomenon and must not be confounded with what looked like it in previous epochs. Historically, it is not older than 1928 when it was set in motion in Soviet Russia under the name of *Gosplan* (state-planning). Since then it has been formally adopted in Italy, Germany and the U. S. A. and to a certain extent in Japan and informally in Great Britain.