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A side-line was his activity as an advisor in various
development countries. According to-E.Lipinski he was forever
in search of an enlightened socialist "principe" who would
listen to his advisors attentively and appreciate not sub
servience but independent judgement and devotion to the
public interest. "He searched for such a ruler from Havanna
to New Delhi." (E.Lipinski, Polish perspectives, Sept.1971).
His work on the perspective plan in Poland has already been
mentioned. In close connection with this work Kalecki developed
the theoretical basis of planning in a book devoted to growth
problems in socialism. The contents of his theory of growth
in socialism are quite different from the theory of capitalism:
supply, not demand problems dominate here. The basic problem
to be solved by socialist planning is. the contradiction between
consumption and investment and not the problem of insufficient
markets. Another important problem is created by different
bottlenecks of which the most important is the balance of
payments constraint. As a result planning requires moderation in
investments projects. Kalecki struggled for a realistic policy
1)
in accordance with this theory but was not sucessful.
1) The struggle for a realistic policy is well illustrated in
the last chapter of G.Feiwels book "The Intellectual Capital
of Michal Kalecki". The University of Tennessee Press 1975..
This book also contains a bibliography of Kalecki's works.