From “Planning” to “Programming”: A Lost Opportunity for the European Project?

Katia Caldari

Forum for Social Economics, 2020, vol. 49, issue 3, 299-315

Abstract: Economic planning developed in France soon after WWII, initially as a way to face the problems of reconstruction and then as a standard tool of French economic policy. With the establishment of the Common Market in 1958, France tried unsuccessfully to extend her indicative planning approach to the other European partners; accordingly, France adopted a particularly cautious attitude: the term “indicative planning” was substituted with the more neutral “programming” whereas several distinctive aspects of her original planning approach were relaxed or discharged. The main aim of this paper is to inquire into the consequences of this shift from planning to programming and to show how this replacement was far from being just semantic and that it involved instead important changes of substance.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/07360932.2019.1688670

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