If a wide spectrum of politicians agreed on planning however, no one could reach an understanding as to what it meant and covered: it ranged "from capitalist-sponsored efforts to 'rationalize' industries to market socialism to Soviet-style Gosplanning, with Keynes-inspired fiscal 'planning' often thrown in for good measure."

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 715