In a message dated 7/15/00 10:49:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << However, if one is interested in the interaction of market and planning under socialism, I would suggest pen-l-ers would be advised to read (or reread) Branko Horva'ts 1982 book, _The Political Economy of Socialism_ (M.E. Sharpe) which I found to be an inspiring vision of what could be, without any detailed blueprint. Without being critical of David's work, I think Horvat's vision is somewhat broader than Schweikart's. >> This is the book that inspired me, back in 1982 when it came out, after I found myself deeply depressed by the failure of left responses to the calculation debate. I have been a market socialist since the day I finished Horvat. It is far broader in scope, but lacks the rigor and precision of Schweickart. And I like Dave's model better because it simple and clean--you can lay it out in four sentences, literally, that do all the work I see necessary for a model of this sort to do. I mean, explaining why, given the model, socialism is better than capitalsim takes a bit more work than that, but much of it is a matter of referring back to the simple and elegant structure of the model, which serves the agitational function of being immediately comprehendable and easily explained. --jks
