Max: You could profitably look at either Pat Devine's model of democratic
planning he calls negotiated coordination (Democratic Planning, Westview
1988) or Mike Albert and my model of participatory planning (The Political
Economy of Participatory Economics, Princeton, 1991). Both treatments
deal with most of the "impossibility theorem" red-herrings you have been
offering in this debate. FYI every market socialist I know of these days
has conceded the technical possibility of democratic or participatory
planning and now objects on grounds of "too much trouble" and/or "too
unfree" compared to one or another version of market socialism. But most
of your objections have been answered and others no longer raise them.
Hence, Lear's growing impatience.


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