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"Thus, in World War II, [Abba] Lerner seriously proposed that Generals Eisenhower and MacArthur each be given abstract purchasing power, to be funnelled down to lower officers, so that the war effort could be directed by auctioning off resources in a Pareto optimal way..." Paul A. Samuelson, "A. P. Lerner at Sixty," The Collected Scientific Papers of Paul A. Samuelson, p. 651. https://books.google.com/books?id=xisb9usg790C&pg=PA651
AHC: Make it happen! (Somehow I can't help thinking of Milo Minderbinder…)