Critics accuse the ruling party of squandering Algeria's oil wealth through corruption and socialist planning while failing to provide citizens with the most basic necessities.

(Chapter 3) provide a succinct radical critique of markets together with advocating socialist planning as an alternative.

His idea: to wrench China's stagnant economy from orthodox socialist central planning and management by embracing some economic ideas of the capitalist West.

While officials still describe these zones as socialist, not everyone agrees that socialist planning will dominate these export-oriented cities.

Further goals were to implement the principles of uniform socialist planning and to use the economic laws of socialism systematically.

Then the view was that without Western money, the emerging market economy would collapse and Russia would backslide into socialist central planning.

But the state's monopoly union, a legacy of socialist central planning, does little to fight for workers in the increasingly capitalist-oriented economy.

Lortikyan, E. Development of socialist planning in transitional period from capitalism to socialism.

Others see the pile of art as a monument to socialist central planning at its most absurd.

Hong Kong's success story demonstrated early on the advantages of a market economy system over old-style socialist economic planning.