Democratic Economic Planning

Bibliographic Data

ID6573801
AuthorsRobin Hahnel (0000-0002-5631-8478, corresponding author)
Year2021
Publication date2021-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueDemocratic Economic Planning (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherTaylor & Francis Group (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4324/9781003173700
OpenAlexW3164247745
Open LibraryOL34702027M, OL36259958M
ISBN9780367754785, 9781003173700
LanguageEN
Citations received23

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 workers in self-managed councils and consumers in neighbourhood councils with autonomy over their own activities while ensuring that they use scarce productive resources in socially responsible ways without subjecting them to competitive market forces. Certain mathematical and economic skills are required to fully understand and evaluate the planning procedures discussed and evaluated in technical sections in a number of chapters. These sections are necessary to advance the theory of democratic planning, and should be of primary interest to readers who have those skills. However, the book is written so that the main argument can be followed without fully digesting the more technical sections. Democratic Economic Planning is written for dreamers who are disenamored with the economics of competition and greed want to know how a system of equitable cooperation can be organized; and also for sceptics who demand "hard proof" that an economy without markets and private enterprise is possible

Democracy · Economics · Political science · Politics · Economic theories and models · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Business & Economics · Comparative · Comparative economics · Economic policy · Macroeconomics · Politique économique

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