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# Strategic Planning

# Definition

The process of developing long-term economic policies and institutional
arrangements that anticipate future conditions and align current actions
with desired long-term outcomes.

## Source Chapter

Book IV, Chapter 5

## Context

Smith's critique of bounties as short-sighted policies that fail to consider
long-term consequences reflects the importance of strategic planning in
economic policy development.

## Economic Domain

General Theory

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