I am not sure if this is a _side issue_ Justin. As you may have noticed, I do not use _scare quotes_ this time since I use quotes most of the time, but not always, to _highlight_ things.
>> I don't think there is any need to put scare quotes around "contracts" in a market socialist society. A contract is just a legally enforceable promise, and any market society, maybe any modern society, will have a legal system and a set of rules for contract law. << Despite that I am more of an anarchist at heart who despises rules and hierarchies of any kind, I recognize that, whether market or not, in any society in which we will live in the near future, there will be a legal system and a set of rules for contracts. After all, every human relation is based on some sort of a contract whether it is our relationship with our lovers, children, parents, siblings, friends and the like. Just that most these (unsigned) contracts are enforceable not by law but by love and we can always opt out provided that we choose to give up on love. I have a question about this: >> The general idea about is that in their economic activities, worker-cooperators will act as if they were profit-maximizers, but the fact that labor is not a cost gives them a different set of incentives from capitalist firms that are explored in the books and papers above. << In the absence of labor as a cost in production, how are the profits defined? Best, Sabri
