# kaal:claim:2267560-014

**Claim.** The centralized planning of the holistic social engineer forces him to fall back on piecemeal improvisation and to engage in unintended actions, producing the phenomenon of unplanned planning.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- holistic or utopian approach to regulatory reform

**Source quote.**

> In practice, the holistic approach continuously forces the holistic social engineer to fall back on piecemeal improvisation (Popper 1957, 68).

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Evolution of Law Dynamic Regulation in a New Institutional Economics Framework* (2013), II.3 Dynamic Regulation as Piecemeal Social Engineering, page 6

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Law Dynamic Regulation in a New Institutional Economics Framework (2013). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2267560

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**Failure mode.** unplanned planning under holistic social engineering  (family: collective-action-and-coordination-failure)

**Topics.** decentralization

**Keywords.** holistic-planning, unplanned-planning, popper, centralized-planning

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