Robin Hahnel
Biographic Data
| ID | 1019657 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin Hahnel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin |
| FAMILY NAME | Hahnel |
| SIGNATURE | HAHNEL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University, Washington, DC, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5631-8478 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
International Perspectives
When Socialism Comes One Country at a Time
What should a country that has rejected capitalism and is beginning to build a socialist economy do with regard to international trade and investment in today’s world where other countries still have capitalist economies, and there are very large differences in levels of economic development? Hoping to stimulate discussion, this article explores dilemmas such a country will face, and proposes concrete answers in the form of rules such a country m…
Comparing different models of socialist democratic planning: A response to Adaman and Devine
In the previous issue of Studies in Political Economy (103, no. 2), Fikret Adaman and Pat Devine critically compare their postcapitalist model “negotiated coordination” with the model known as “a participatory economy,” which Michael Albert and I have espoused. In this paper, I respond to some of their criticisms and present some criticisms of their model and approach as well
A Participatory Economy: What Have We Learned
Response to Moseley
In “A Marxian reply to Hahnel: The relative explanatory power of Marx’s theory and Sraffa’s theory,” Moseley begins by arguing that I misrepresent Marx. For any like myself, who believe that because we now have linear algebra, and the theorems of Frobenius and Perron to take advantage of, we are able to elaborate a better formal framework for understanding prices and income distribution in capitalism than was available during Marx’s time, the pas…
Democratic Economic Planning
Democratic Economic Planning presents a concrete proposal for how to organize, carry out, and integrate comprehensive annual economic planning, investment planning, and long-run development planning so as to maximize popular participation, distribute the burdens and benefits of economic activity fairly, achieve environmental sustainability, and use scarce productive resources efficiently. The participatory planning procedures proposed provide wor…
Reproductive Labor in a Participataory Socialist Society
This article proposes concrete ways to organize and reward reproductive labor in a participatory socialist, feminist society. Feminist literature has convincingly documented myriad ways in which the costs and benefits of reproductive activity have been distributed unequally between men and women historically. In hopes of stimulating discussion about solutions, we offer concrete proposals to overcome gender biases in a future society with a partic…
Quiet Revolution in Welfare Economics
Radical Political Economy: Sraffa Versus Marx
For too long radical political economy has suffered for lack of a coherent alternative to formal Marxian economic theory. People have had to choose between (1) continuing to use a formal model based on the labor theory of value as Marx developed in Capital to justify and retain one's opposition to capitalism, or (2) abandoning the formal Marxian framework as outdated, and risk losing a critical evaluation of capitalism. Radical Political Economy:…
Income Distribution and Environmental Sustainability: A Sraffian Approach
Any economics that does not deal forthrightly with economic inequality is no longer suitable for the twenty-first century. Similarly, any economics which does not provide a coherent way to integrate environmental sustainability into economic analysis will fail to command allegiance in the century ahead. This book demonstrates how the Sraffian framework provides important advantages in both areas. Divided into three chapters, Income Distribution a…
Participatory Economics and the Commons
What is the commons? What should the commons include? What responsibilities do we—the present generation—have as stewards to protect the commons for future generations? Whom should the commons bene
Response to David Laibman's “Appraisal of the Participatory Economy”
Economic Justice and Democracy: From Competition to Cooperation
Economic Justice and Democracy: From Competition to Cooperation
In Economic Justice and Democracy Robin Hahnel argues that progressives need to go back to the drawing board and rethink how they conceive of economic justice and economic democracy. He presents a coherent set of economic institutions and procedures that can deliver economic justice and democracy through a "participatory economy." But this is a long-run goal; he also explores how to promote the economics of equitable cooperation in the here and n…
The Growth Imperative: Beyond Assuming Conclusions
There are compelling reasons to believe there is an unhealthy growth imperative inherent in private enterprise market systems that threatens the environment. Unfortunately, many who criticize a dysfunctional growth imperative fail to make a compelling case. This article argues that too often ecological and Marxist economists fail to answer crucial parts of skeptics’ arguments and instead assume their conclusions, and offers an alternative defense…
Rejoinder to Patrick Bond
Of the People, By the People: The Case for a Participatory Economy
Question 3: Incentives and Consciousness
If socialist society is not constructed out of pre-existing socialist individuals, then how does it handle the historical limitations inherited from pre-socialist conditions? What is the best way to advance beyond the limitations of short-term and irresponsible anti-social self-interest? What is the nature of the individual-social relationship
Question 4: Stages and Productive Forces
Does socialism progress through stages? Is there a higher, or communist, stage? How can stages, as a manifestation of the objectivity of social evolution, be reconciled with the marshaling of will and consciousness necessary for building socialist society? What role does (or should) development of the productive forces play in a) socialist social evolution; b) socialist theory? How does socialism envision the evolution of democracy? the state
Question 5: Social and Long-Term Planning
What does socialism contribute to social planning, in the sense of shaping the social and physical environment over the long term (as distinct from the ever-present matter of short-term coordination of activities)? Can it incorporate genuine entre-preneurialism and/or inventiveness? What are the prospects for growth, and how will socialist growth differ from capitalist growth? How can/must socialism build into its core processes the transcendence…
Question 1: Why Socialism
What is the ultimate grounding and historical justification for projecting a socialist society? Broadly conceptualized, what do socialists want? What are the defining qualities of socialism, and how do those qualities constitute a decisive advance over capitalism and class-antagonistic societies in general
Question 2: Feasibility and Coordination
What are the distinctive features of a socialist organization of production, distribution, consumption? How are complex choices made, and highly variegated individual needs and interests reconciled? What should be the balance among: market, central plan, iterative coordination, negotiated coordination
Desperately Seeking Left Unity on International Climate Policy
In the aftermath of the train wreck at the international climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December 2009, followed by the abandonment of all attempts to negotiate a post-Kyoto international cli
Why the Market Subverts Democracy
Proponents of neoliberalism contend that promoting free markets is nearly synonymous with promoting democracy. Even those who reject extreme neoliberalism and call for regulating markets often express reluctance to do so because such interventions, in their view, diminish economic freedom to some extent. After a critical examination of competing definitions of economic democracy, this article argues that, contrary to popular opinion, the market s…
Against the Market Economy: Advice to Venezuelan Friends
I am here to salute you—because you are attempting to do what nobody has ever succeeded in doing before—help autonomous groups of workers and consumers plan their interrelated activities democratically, equitably, and efficiently themselves. You have already created the elements of what you call the "social economy"—worker-owned cooperatives, communal councils, municipal assemblies, participatory budgeting, subsidized food stores, health care cli…
Participatory Economics and the Commons
What is the commons? What should the commons include? What responsibilities do we—the present generation—have as stewards to protect the commons for future generations? Whom should the commons bene
In Defense of Participatory Economics
Desperately Seeking Left Unity on International Climate Policy
In the aftermath of the train wreck at the international climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December 2009, followed by the abandonment of all attempts to negotiate a post-Kyoto international cli
Eco-localism: A Constructive Critique
In the aftermath of the collapse of communism, debate about alternatives to capitalism has divided into three camps: advocates of market socialism, proponents of democratic planning, and supporters
Question 5: Social and Long-Term Planning
What does socialism contribute to social planning, in the sense of shaping the social and physical environment over the long term (as distinct from the ever-present matter of short-term coordination of activities)? Can it incorporate genuine entre-preneurialism and/or inventiveness? What are the prospects for growth, and how will socialist growth differ from capitalist growth? How can/must socialism build into its core processes the transcendence…
Response to David Laibman's “Appraisal of the Participatory Economy”
Question 3: Incentives and Consciousness
If socialist society is not constructed out of pre-existing socialist individuals, then how does it handle the historical limitations inherited from pre-socialist conditions? What is the best way to advance beyond the limitations of short-term and irresponsible anti-social self-interest? What is the nature of the individual-social relationship
Question 4: Stages and Productive Forces
Does socialism progress through stages? Is there a higher, or communist, stage? How can stages, as a manifestation of the objectivity of social evolution, be reconciled with the marshaling of will and consciousness necessary for building socialist society? What role does (or should) development of the productive forces play in a) socialist social evolution; b) socialist theory? How does socialism envision the evolution of democracy? the state
Question 2: Feasibility and Coordination
What are the distinctive features of a socialist organization of production, distribution, consumption? How are complex choices made, and highly variegated individual needs and interests reconciled? What should be the balance among: market, central plan, iterative coordination, negotiated coordination
Participatory Planning
Quiet Revolution in Welfare Economics
Journal Article Quiet Revolution in Welfare Economics Get access Quiet Revolution in Welfare Economics. By Robin Hahnel and Michael Albert. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991. Pp. xii + 440. ISBN 0 691 04252 7.) John Bonner John Bonner University of Leicester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 102, Issue 413, 1 July 1992, Pages 974–975, https://doi.org/10.2307/223460…
Unorthodox Marxism: An Essay on Capitalism, Socialism and Revolution
Marxism and Socialist Theory
The Political Economy of Participatory Economics
Participatory economics for the 21st century
(1992). Participatory economics for the 21st century. Peace Review: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 3-7
Participatory Planning
Quiet Revolution in Welfare Economics
Journal Article Quiet Revolution in Welfare Economics Get access Quiet Revolution in Welfare Economics. By Robin Hahnel and Michael Albert. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991. Pp. xii + 440. ISBN 0 691 04252 7.) John Bonner John Bonner University of Leicester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 102, Issue 413, 1 July 1992, Pages 974–975, https://doi.org/10.2307/223460…
In Defense of Participatory Economics
Eco-localism: A Constructive Critique
In the aftermath of the collapse of communism, debate about alternatives to capitalism has divided into three camps: advocates of market socialism, proponents of democratic planning, and supporters
Against the Market Economy: Advice to Venezuelan Friends
I am here to salute you—because you are attempting to do what nobody has ever succeeded in doing before—help autonomous groups of workers and consumers plan their interrelated activities democratically, equitably, and efficiently themselves. You have already created the elements of what you call the "social economy"—worker-owned cooperatives, communal councils, municipal assemblies, participatory budgeting, subsidized food stores, health care cli…
Why the Market Subverts Democracy
Proponents of neoliberalism contend that promoting free markets is nearly synonymous with promoting democracy. Even those who reject extreme neoliberalism and call for regulating markets often express reluctance to do so because such interventions, in their view, diminish economic freedom to some extent. After a critical examination of competing definitions of economic democracy, this article argues that, contrary to popular opinion, the market s…
Of the People, By the People: The Case for a Participatory Economy
Question 3: Incentives and Consciousness
If socialist society is not constructed out of pre-existing socialist individuals, then how does it handle the historical limitations inherited from pre-socialist conditions? What is the best way to advance beyond the limitations of short-term and irresponsible anti-social self-interest? What is the nature of the individual-social relationship
Question 4: Stages and Productive Forces
Does socialism progress through stages? Is there a higher, or communist, stage? How can stages, as a manifestation of the objectivity of social evolution, be reconciled with the marshaling of will and consciousness necessary for building socialist society? What role does (or should) development of the productive forces play in a) socialist social evolution; b) socialist theory? How does socialism envision the evolution of democracy? the state
Question 5: Social and Long-Term Planning
What does socialism contribute to social planning, in the sense of shaping the social and physical environment over the long term (as distinct from the ever-present matter of short-term coordination of activities)? Can it incorporate genuine entre-preneurialism and/or inventiveness? What are the prospects for growth, and how will socialist growth differ from capitalist growth? How can/must socialism build into its core processes the transcendence…
Question 1: Why Socialism
What is the ultimate grounding and historical justification for projecting a socialist society? Broadly conceptualized, what do socialists want? What are the defining qualities of socialism, and how do those qualities constitute a decisive advance over capitalism and class-antagonistic societies in general
Question 2: Feasibility and Coordination
What are the distinctive features of a socialist organization of production, distribution, consumption? How are complex choices made, and highly variegated individual needs and interests reconciled? What should be the balance among: market, central plan, iterative coordination, negotiated coordination
Desperately Seeking Left Unity on International Climate Policy
In the aftermath of the train wreck at the international climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December 2009, followed by the abandonment of all attempts to negotiate a post-Kyoto international cli
Economic Justice and Democracy: From Competition to Cooperation
Economic Justice and Democracy: From Competition to Cooperation
In Economic Justice and Democracy Robin Hahnel argues that progressives need to go back to the drawing board and rethink how they conceive of economic justice and economic democracy. He presents a coherent set of economic institutions and procedures that can deliver economic justice and democracy through a "participatory economy." But this is a long-run goal; he also explores how to promote the economics of equitable cooperation in the here and n…
The Growth Imperative: Beyond Assuming Conclusions
There are compelling reasons to believe there is an unhealthy growth imperative inherent in private enterprise market systems that threatens the environment. Unfortunately, many who criticize a dysfunctional growth imperative fail to make a compelling case. This article argues that too often ecological and Marxist economists fail to answer crucial parts of skeptics’ arguments and instead assume their conclusions, and offers an alternative defense…
Rejoinder to Patrick Bond
Response to David Laibman's “Appraisal of the Participatory Economy”
Participatory Economics and the Commons
What is the commons? What should the commons include? What responsibilities do we—the present generation—have as stewards to protect the commons for future generations? Whom should the commons bene
Income Distribution and Environmental Sustainability: A Sraffian Approach
Any economics that does not deal forthrightly with economic inequality is no longer suitable for the twenty-first century. Similarly, any economics which does not provide a coherent way to integrate environmental sustainability into economic analysis will fail to command allegiance in the century ahead. This book demonstrates how the Sraffian framework provides important advantages in both areas. Divided into three chapters, Income Distribution a…
Quiet Revolution in Welfare Economics
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