In  the second part of our series on economic planning, Ben and Jack  discuss the decentralised model of planning implemented by the socialist  Chilean government in the 1970s, the USSR's All-State Automated System (OGAS), and modern-day China. Jack is a postgraduate student at  Cambridge...

In the first installment of a three part series, Ben speaks to Jack Chadwick about the basic principles of economic planning and how it was implemented in the Soviet Union. In parts two and three we will take a look at Allende's Chile, modern day China, and discuss Evgeny Morozov's recent article...