Ebook: Towards Socialist Planning

This collection of articles was originally scheduled to appear as two editions of Uchumi, the journal of the Economic Society of Tanzania. The theme running through the articles is that planning should not be seen as a mere technocratic exercise to be left to the professional economists, but must involve not only experts from other disciplines, but also, since the aim in Tanzania is to plan for socialist transformation, the people through their representative institutions and, particularly, the Party.

After some deliberation it was felt that the impact of this common theme would be considerably weakened if the articles did not appear as a single volume. It was, therefore, decided to ask Tanzania Publishing House to produced essays in book form; subscribers to Uchumi are receiving a copy of the book in the place of two issues of the journal.