Doug,
Of course I have no specific proposals at this time. Changes would require a great
deal of experimentation. So far no society has had the opportunity to really make
such experiments, without tremendous outside pressures. Neither Cuban nor the
Soviet Union had such a chance.
Doug Henwood wrote:
> Michael Perelman wrote:
>
> >My main complaint about the idea of market socialism is that it does
> >nothing to go beyond the sort of incentives that contaminate life in
> >a capitalist economy. I would prefer to take a chance that people
> >can go beyond the limited incentives of selfishness that dominate
> >market society. I
> >may be wrong, but if so capitalism might even be superior to market socialism.
>
> How do you propose to get to a nonmarket socialism? Seems to me the
> only hope is to bend, push, modify, transform what exists now, which
> means, in Diane Elson's phrase, socializing markets. It seems
> abstract and adventurist to talk about any postmarket socialism as if
> you could just pull it down from the shelf.
>
> Doug
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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