The market-planning compromise slogan originated with Karl Schiller
Evidence
- Karl Schiller first coined the phrase “planning as much as necessary, competition as much as possible” to reconfigure the traditional Social Democratic emphasis on planning (see Foucault 2004, 130–132). — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 186
Categorization
- DEFINE: Pinpoints the origin of a famous slogan that softens the market vs. planning binary.
- XREF: Connects to Foucault’s lectures on German ordoliberalism and the Social Democratic reframing of economic governance.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 186