Well, we have empirical evidence that worker controlled firms are often more efficient than capitalist ones. As for democratic planning, the only study of this on anything but a micro level that I know of is Jimo county in China during the GPCR. I made a post to this list earlier, it is linked here
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg15387.html I would also say that heirarchal planning (such as in South Korea or more controversially, Maoist China) often works as well as or better than markets. Would the democratic nature of planning under (an idealized) socialism be make it ineffective? > > What is the evidence that cooperative socialism can work? > > David Shemano >
