Pat Devine

Biographic Data

ID3674068
NAMEPat Devine
GIVEN NAMESPat
FAMILY NAMEDevine
SIGNATUREDEVINE P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Manchester
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS32
TOTAL CITATIONS84
AUTHOR COUNT32
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1991
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX6

  • On “Democratic Economic Planning, Social Metabolism and the Environment

    Open AccessFikret Adaman, Pat DevineARTICLEScience & Society2025Cited by: 1

  • Revisiting the Calculation Debate: A Call for a Multiscale Approach

    Open AccessFikret Adaman, Pat DevineARTICLERethinking Marxism2022Cited by: 1References: 33

    This essay provides a framework to develop policies that can both resist the capitalist system and formulate alternatives to it, by critically reviewing discussions of an ecosocialist society and its economic organization through revisiting the "calculation debate" that was started in the 1930s and is still ongoing. It underlines the importance of repoliticizing the economic sphere to reembed the economy in society rather than society being subor…

  • Response to Hannah Archambault and Luke Pretz, Aaron Benanav, and Ted Burczak

    Open AccessFikret Adaman, Pat DevineARTICLERethinking Marxism2022References: 1

    In responding to Fikret Adaman and Pat Devine’s essay “Revisiting the Calculation Debate: A Call for a Multiscale Approach,” Hannah Archambault and Luke Pretz, Aaron Benanav, and Ted Burczak at points reinforce the text’s positions, reinterpret arguments from different angles, complement arguments, and raise their own concerns. With gratitude, the authors here provide their own reflections on these responses, advocating for politically determined…

  • Clarifications on democracy and economic planning: An engagement with Robin Hahnel

    Fikret Adaman, Pat DevineARTICLEStudies in Political Economy2022Cited by: 1References: 1

    Models developed by Robin Hahnel and Pat Devine both claim to rest on democratic planning in an ecosocialist society. Whereas Hahnel depends on a neoclassical framework (commensurability of goods, assumption of homo economics, reliance on marginal costs-benefits), Devine relies on knowledge in different forms as articulated at the individual, institutional, and societal levels by the social owners at each level and incorporates a transformatory d…

  • Negotiated Coordination and Socialist Democracy

    Open AccessPat DevineARTICLEScience & Society2022Cited by: 2References: 1

  • Democracy and Economic Planning: The Political Economy of a Self-governing Society

    Pat DevineBOOKDemocracy and Economic Planning2020

    Devine begins with an analysis of the theory and practice of capitalist planning, central planning and 'market socialism'. He argues that, while market socialism is currently favoured by many economists who reject both capitalism and the command planning of the Soviet model, it cannot fulfil the promises held out for it. In the remainder of the bo

  • Marx, la démocratie et la planification économique

    Pat Devine, Ugo PalhetaARTICLEActuel Marx2019Cited by: 1

    Ce texte développe un modèle de planification démocratique reposant sur des institutions permettant aux producteurs associés de contribuer à une structure stratifiée de décision et d’exécution définie par le principe de subsidiarité. Il implique, de l’échelle de l’entreprise jusqu’à celle de l’économie dans son ensemble, une démocratie politique et une démocratie économique participatives. Un tel modèle amène alors à déconstruire le concept de « …

  • Doing justice to Karl Polanyi

    Pat DevineARTICLECapitalism Nature Socialism2019Cited by: 1

  • Democratic Socialist Planning

    Pat DevineCHAPTERThe Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx2018

    This chapter summarizes Marx’s vision of a socialist/Communist society, sets out the defining characteristics of democracy and planning, and assesses the historical experience of the Soviet Union’s model of centralized command planning, the Yugoslav model of self-managed market socialism, and the Latin American attempts at twenty-first century socialism. This is followed by an evaluation of the three principal contemporary theoretical models of a…

  • Ecosocialism for a new era

    Pat DevineCHAPTERVarieties of Alternative Economic…2017

    Multiple interlocking crises are calling into question the continuing viability of capitalism, re-posing Rosa Luxemburg's warning: "(Eco)socialism or barbarism". It seemed at the time as if a new era of stable capitalism had been established, sometimes referred to in retrospect as a "Golden Age". This chapter argues that capitalism is incapable of creating the conditions necessary for the flourishing of human and non-human nature or, to put it an…

  • Disentangling Capital's Web

    Judith Watson, Ted Benton et al.ARTICLECapitalism Nature Socialism2016Cited by: 2

  • Question 3: Incentives and Consciousness

    Open AccessXiaoqin Ding, Peihua Mao et al.ARTICLEScience & Society2012Cited by: 1

    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

    Open AccessRobin Hahnel, Marta Harnecker et al.ARTICLEScience & Society2012Cited by: 1

    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

    Open AccessMarta Harnecker, David Laibman et al.ARTICLEScience & Society2012Cited by: 2

    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

    Open AccessPaul Cockshott, Allin Cottrell et al.ARTICLEScience & Society2012

    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

    Open AccessPat Devine, Xiaoqin Ding et al.ARTICLEScience & Society2012Cited by: 1

    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

  • Parecon: Life After Capitalism

    Pat DevineARTICLEHistorical Materialism2007Cited by: 4

  • On the Metabolism between Society and Nature in the U.K

    Pat Devine, Peter Dicken et al.ARTICLECapitalism Nature Socialism2007

    This symposium on the metabolic relationship between human society and non-human nature in the U.K. has been edited and largely written by members of the Red Green Study Group, formed in London in

  • The promise of participatory planning: A rejoinder to Hodgson

    Fikret Adaman, Pat DevineARTICLEEconomy and Society2006Cited by: 8References: 6

    This note is a rejoinder to Hodgson's second attempt at a critique of our model of participatory planning through negotiated coordination. The rejoinder is organized under four headings: market exchange and market forces/negotiated coordination; subsidiarity and pluralism; innovation, entrepreneurship, and tacit knowledge; and autonomy and self-government. We consider Hodgson's characterization of our position to be a travesty and rebut his asser…

  • Reinstituting the Economic Process: (Re)embedding the Economy in Society and Nature

    Fikret Adaman, Pat Devine et al.ARTICLEInternational Review of Sociology2003Cited by: 13References: 3

    Polanyi argued that the project of creating a fully self-regulating market was utopian, in the sense of impossible. However, movement towards this utopia, the ever greater but never completed process of disembedding the economy from both society and nature, creates growing dislocations and tensions which call forth a counter movement. This double movement may be thought of as successive changes in the way in which the economic process is institut…

  • A Reconsideration of the Theory of Entrepreneurship: A participatory approach

    Fikret Adaman, Pat DevineARTICLEReview of Political Economy2002Cited by: 7References: 18

    The aim of this paper is to further the understanding of the relationship between entrepreneurial success and organisational form. The role of entrepreneurship in the neoclassical, Austrian and competence theory approaches is analysed and five recurring themes are identified: the tacit nature of knowledge relevant for entrepreneurial activity; the presence of tacit knowledge at both the individual and organisational levels; the articulation of ta…

  • Introduction: Building Socialism Theoretically: Alternatives to Capitalism and the Invisible Hand

    Open AccessPat DevineARTICLEScience & Society2002

  • Participatory Planning through Negotiated Coordination

    Open AccessPat DevineARTICLEScience & Society2002Cited by: 11References: 3

  • Participatory planning as a deliberative democratic process: A response to Hodgson's critique

    Fikret Adaman, Pat DevineARTICLEEconomy and Society2001Cited by: 10References: 4

    This paper is a response to Hodgson's recent critique of our model of participatory planning through negotiated co-ordination. His critique focused on four issues: the coherence of our distinction between market exchange and market forces; our understanding of tacit knowledge; the scope for innovation in our model; and the alleged problems of information overload and cognitive limitations. In this response we argue that Hodgson misinterprets our …

  • On the Economic Theory of Socialism

    Fikret Adaman, Pat DevineARTICLENew left review1997

    The political revolutions of 1989–91 in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have created a new historical conjuncture in which the very future of the socialist project has been called into question. Socialists of all varieties have been affected by a profound loss of confidence