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Is Economic Planning Hypercomputational? The Argument from Cantor Diagonalisation

<10>This is part of an ongoing publication programme on hypercomputation and its practical implications. It is a response to the claim that economic planning is a hypercomputational problem. It refutes these claims by proving that the problem is in fact within a tractable computational class. The journal is chosen because it discusses issues of hypercomputation. The demonstration of the computational tractability of economic planning undercuts a key argument of the Hayekian discourse that has underlain British Government economic policy since the 1970s, and indicates that proposals to develop a national economic plan would, with modern technology, have been practicable.