Planning and the market are a relevant subject in the current context of economic transformations which the Cuban economy is undergoing. Despite it being a controversial subject, it has lacked debate. However, where it has most been dealt with and discussed, though insufficiently, is in the academic sphere. There have been times in which an identity between market and capitalism has been established. Apparently, at least there are three rather disseminated lines of thinking about planning and market: the one that attributes the fundamental role to planning and does not recognise the existence of the market and its function; a second one that gives the fundamental role to the market and ignores that of planning; and, lastly, the one that presents the establishment of an objective relationship between the role of planning and the market.1 Some questions could perhaps channel