Looking Forward

by Albert, Michael; Hahnel, Robin

• ISBN13: 9780896084056
• ISBN10: 0896084051
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1990-12-01
• Publisher: South End Pr

Summary

A classic work on particpatory economics and alternatives to the market.

Author Biography

Michael Albert is co-editor and co-founder of Z Magazine Robin Hahnel is professor of economics at American University, Washington D.C.

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. 1
Capitalism Triumphant?	p. 1
Socialism Repudiated?	p. 3
Coordinatorism	p. 4
The Origins of Coordinatorism	p. 6
The Big Lie	p. 8
Introduction	p. 11
Contents	p. 12
Work Without Hierarchy	p. 15
Human Labor	p. 15
Workplace Organization	p. 18
Workplace Decision Making	p. 21
Confronting Skeptics and Adversaries	p. 21
Participatory Workplaces	p. 27
Book Publishing	p. 27
Airport Council Structure	p. 36
Printing: A Third World Example	p. 39
Egalitarian Consumption	p. 46
Consumption Norms	p. 47
Participatory Consumption	p. 53
Collective Consumption	p. 53
Individual Consumption	p. 56
To Consume or Be Consumed?	p. 61
Allocation Without Hierarchy	p. 65
Arguments Against Equity, Variety, and Participation	p. 65
Contours of Economic Allocation	p. 67
Participatory Allocation	p. 74
Preparing First Proposals	p. 75
Going from One Proposal to Another	p. 77
Updating a Settled Plan	p. 79
Converging	p. 81
Allocation Alternatives	p. 86
Is This for Real?	p. 88
Workplace Decision Making	p. 95
Planning at Northstart	p. 95
The John Henry Plan	p. 105
Daily Decision Making at Jesse Owens Airport	p. 110
Consumption Planning	p. 114
Determining County Level Collective Consumption	p. 114
Determining Personal Consumption Proposals	p. 116
Daily Consumption and Changes in the Plan	p. 120
Allocation Decision Making	p. 121
Developing Initial Data	p. 121
Revising Data in Subsequent Iterations	p. 124
Working at a Facilitation Board	p. 127
Qualitative Information	p. 127
The Logic of Participatory Planning	p. 128
The Information Society	p. 130
Technology and Economic Relations	p. 130
"Darwinian" Technological Evolution	p. 131
Special Characteristics of Computers	p. 133
Computers and Capitalist Economics	p. 137
Computers and Coordinator Economics	p. 138
Computers and Social Change	p. 139
Conclusion and Transition	p. 141
Economics	p. 141
Extra-Economics	p. 143
Transition to Participatory Economics	p. 145
Glossary	p. 151
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