We have lived through two practical attempts to realise these in their pure form: the centrally state-planned economies of the Soviet type and the totally unrestricted and uncontrolled free-market capitalist economy.
More centrally, states the complaint: When Baptiste "could no longer tolerate his behavior," Goguen signed a contract to pay her $40 million "as compensation for the horrors she suffered at his hands".
He advocated a centrally organized state, stating that the unification of South Slavs was a historical and political inevitability and that Serbs, Croats and Slovenes shared "blood kinship and feeling of common fate".
The commission, a powerful Beijing organization with oversight of some of the biggest centrally controlled state companies, sent a letter to the study's authors arguing that reducing state involvement in the economy would be "unconstitutional" and effectively "subvert the basic economic system of socialism".
Will Afghanistan be a centrally run state with the seat of power in Kabul?
Unlike the Liberal and Labor parties, whose election campaigns are run centrally, each state and territory Greens organisation is responsible for its own campaign.
It became a centrally administered state in 1952, but in 1956 its status was changed to that of a union territory under the central government.
But the number of centrally owned state enterprises would continue to decline from 161 at the end of last year to between 80 and 100 in 2010.
While we have more than a thousand denominations, Europeans often have centrally planned state religions that put barriers in the way of competition and provide little in the way of diverse religious products.
Until Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997, many in the colony had an uneasy relationship with the People's Republic, whose centrally planned state economy was the total opposite of the free-wheeling capitalism in the British territory.
But as bold, inventive and successful as Deng Xiaoping's new economy came to seem over the ensuing years, the implanting of such market-oriented entities as stock exchanges into what was still largely an unreconstructed one-party, centrally planned state economy created a situation that seemed destined – as Deng had lamented in 1989 – to trigger a storm sooner or later.
