Democracy and Economic Planning

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* Book: Devine’s Democracy and Economic Planning ;

URL = http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Economic-Planning-Pat-Devine/dp/0745634796

Discussion

by Gavin Mendel-Gleason [1] :

"Devine’s negotiated coordination is an attempt to meet both consumer and producer demands through democratic stake-holding bodies which compromise between production and consumption targets to produce a plan. The book is useful as an introduction to British wartime planning and various theories about the nature of the USSR. The British wartime examples are both instructive and encouraging and make the first half of the book well worth the read.

On the other hand the actual details of how planning would be conducted are relatively sparse. The idea given really focuses much more on managing democracy and much less on managing efficient production. As such it seems like it would be a better adjunct to another theory of planning which could give insight into what a baseline plan aught to look like." (http://spiritofcontradiction.eu/rowan-duffy/2012/06/28/which-way-the-economic-revolution)