Democracy and Economic Planning: The Political Economy of a Self-governing Society

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Copyright Contents Preface PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction 1.1 Introduction 1.2 The Marxist Socialist Critique of Capitalism 1.3 The Crisis of Credibility 1.4 The Case for Planning 1.5 Models of Planning PART II HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE 2 Capitalist Planning 2.1 Wartime Planning 2.2 Macroeconomic Management 2.3 Indicative Planning 2.4 Industrial Policy 2.5 Conclusion 3 Central Planning 3.1 Administrative Command Planning 3.2 Economic Reform 3.3 The Political Economy of Reform 3.4 Alienation and Democracy 3.5 Conclusion 4 Market Socialism 4.1 Introduction 4.2 The Hungarian New Economic Mechanism 4.3 Yugoslavia's Worker Self-Managed Economy 4.4 Models of Market Socialism 4.5 Conclusion PART III OBJECTIVES 5 The Socialization of Production 5.1 Historical Materialism and Statism 5.2 The Socialization of Production 5.3 Socialization as a Process 5.4 Popular Control 5.5 Conclusion 6 Democracy 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Political Democracy 6.3 Economic Democracy 6.4 Interests 6.5 The Desire and Ability to Participate 7 Abolition of the Social Division of Labour 7.1 Introduction 7.2 The Functional Division of Labour 7.3 The Social Division of Labour 7.4 Experts and Citizens 7.5 Production, Planning and People PART IV DEMOCRATIC PLANNING 8 National Priorities and Planning 8.1 Democratic Planning: An Outline 8.2 Priorities and Allocation 8.3 Primary Input Prices 8.4 Policy Implementation 8.5 The Conscious Allocation of Resources 9 Communities and Production Units 9.1 Local and Regional Planning 9.2 Community Interests 9.3 Consumer and User Interests 9.4 Production Units: Forms and Structure 9.5 Negotiated Coordination Bodies 10 Negotiated Coordination 10.1 Models of Coordination 10.2 Price Formation: Costs and Demand 10.3 The Process of Negotiated Coordination 10.4 Macroeconomic Balance 10.5 An Assessment PART V CONCLUSION 11 Conclusion 11.1 Introduction 11.2 Negotiation: Retrospect and Prospect 11.3 Struggle, Participation and Τransformation 11.4 A Self-activating, Self-governing Society Notes Bibliography Index