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abilities, differing 55-61
Albert, Michael 253, 302
allocation 11, 19-20
alternative systems 118-22
central planning 49, 51-4, 118-19
information and communication 122-7
institutions 20-1
long-range planning 219-21
market economies 11-12, 20, 66-7, 75-6, 118-19, 275-6
needs-based 282-5
organization 127-8
parecon 167-9, 219-27
anti-capitalist globalization 4, 6-8
artists, parecon and 244-7
Australia 15
balanced job complexes 10-11, 104-11, 115-16, 126-7, 136, 148-51, 155, 170, 176-7, 195-6, 207, 245, 272-4
Bellamy, Edward 33-4, 76-7
black markets 267-9
Bowles, Sam 66-7, 68
Brazil 14, 15
budgeting
participatory 15, 16
social needs 282-3
Burke, Edmund 64
busybody economy, parecon as 254-5
capital, ownership, and wealth 29-34, 245
capitalism 24-5, 78
alternatives to 8-9, 12
class structure 161
collective consumption 208-10
decision-making 181-3
individual consumption 212-13
innovation 250-2
jobs under 241-2
publishing example 173-4
rejection 1-2
“there is no better alternative” 122-3
work experience 194-5
capitalist globalization 2-4
replacing 7-8
capitalists 26, 78
Carlyle, Thomas 64
central planning 20-1, 49-55, 263, 266-7
allocation 11, 12, 49, 51-4, 118-19
compared with participatory planning 271-4
centrally planned socialism 1, 12, 24-5, 80
children, provision for 282
China 50
Chomsky, Noam 1, 290
class structure 8-9, 25-6, 44
capitalism 161
central planning 50-1, 54
corporate division of labor 46-7, 69-70, 104-5
market economies 69-70, 77
parecon 160-1, 169-70
clean air 145
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co-housing communities 213-15, 216
Collective Consumption Facilitation Board 210-12, 216-17
communication, allocation and 122-7
competition
capitalism 78
differing abilities 57-8
market economies 71-2
consumers
central planning 50, 52-3
demand 202-3
individual 214-15
information and communication 122-8
market economies 66
preferences 75-6
consumers’ councils 93-4, 151-2, 165
decision-making 94-102, 258-9
participatory planning 128-35, 154-5, 189-90, 211
consumption 19-20
on basis of need 116-17
collective 138-43, 208-12, 215-17
externalities 166-7
individual 143-5, 212-15
opportunities 233-4
organization 258-9
personal 214-15, 217-18
planning 128-9, 215-18
preferences 162
self-management 165-7
cooperatives, workers and consumers 14
coordinators, decision-making 181-2
corporate division of labor 44-9, 69-70, 104-5
councils
decision-making 9
parecon 91-102, 210-11
creativity, parecon and 244-7
Cuba 50
cultural institutions, markets as 66-7
D’Arge, Ralph 71
decision-making
allocation 168-9
capitalism 181-3
consensus 94-102
consumers 94-102, 258-9
councils 9
diversity 160
economic 23-4
expertise 150-1
norms 39-41
parecon 183-4, 257-8
participation 149, 150-1
planning 204-6, 263-4
private ownership 43-4
self-management 155, 163-9
workers 69-71
demand
consumers 202-3
participatory planning 133-4, 223
democracy 261
decision-making 9
market economies 68-9
workplace 45-6
desirability, job complexes 103-5
Devine, Pat 256-7
dictatorship of the sociable, parecon as 255-6
diversity
corporate division of labor 48
economic values 41, 55
parecon 159-62, 244-7
division of labor 21-2
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capitalism 78
centrally planned socialism 80
corporate 44-9, 69-70
market economies 58-9
market socialism 79
Eastern Europe 50
economic decision-making 23-4
economic distribution 119-20
economic values
diversity 41
efficiency 42
equity 28-38
self-management 39-41
economics, participatory
see parecon economy
defined 19-20
dynamics and institutions 20-4
types of 24-5
education, remuneration and 36-7
efficiency
economic values 42
market economies 71-8
parecon 194-7, 231-7
elitism 56
Emma Goldman community 213-15, 216
employees, hiring and firing 205-6
Employment Facilitation Boards 206-7
empowerment, at work 104-11
equity 13-14, 54
circumstances 38
corporate division of labor 47-8
income 28-38
markets 55-64
parecon 157-8
quality and 244-7
externalities
consumption 166-7
market economies 60-1, 71-2, 74-6
participatory planning 138-47
facilitation boards 154, 185, 189-93, 206-7, 210-12, 215-18, 221-7, 271-4, 279
federations, consumer’s 93-4
Folbre, Nancy 253
free rider problem 76
Friedman, Milton 77, 152-3
gasoline, environmental impact 145
Gates, Bill 9, 114
global exchange 4-7
Global Investment Assistance Agency, proposed 5, 7, 8
globalization, capitalist 2-4
green bans 15
green bioregionalism 1, 24-5, 80-3
Hahnel, Robin 253
health, impact of smoking 144
health care 282-3
hierarchy, division of labor 21
hospitals, public and private 209
households, collective
consumption planning 216-17
human nature, views of 289-93
human relations, market economies and 64-5
Hunt, E.K. 71, 74
IBM 73
incentives
income differentials 153-4
training 235-6
workers 252
income
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allocation 55-6
differentials 58-64, 234
distribution 43
equity 28-38
individuals, parecon and 261-3
information
allocation and 122-7
central planning 49-50, 51-2
market economies 66
innovations, parecon 185-8, 246, 250-2, 275-6, 277
inputs, planning 184-5
International Asset Agency, proposed 5, 7, 8
International Monetary Fund (IMF) 4-5, 6, 7, 69
international relations, bottom-up institutions 6-7
international trade 2-4
investment, participatory planning 220-5
invisible hand 71, 76
Iteration Facilitation Boards (IFBs) 154, 185, 189-93, 215, 217-18, 221-7
Jefferson Park 208-10
Jesse Owens Airport 204-6
job changing, parecon 108-9
job complexes, balanced 10-11, 104-11, 115-16, 126-7, 136, 148-51, 155, 170, 176-7, 195-6, 207, 245, 272-4
John Henry Steel Plant 197-204
justice, remunerative 113-17
Kerala 15
Keynes, J.M. 78
labor, remuneration and 34-5
labor markets, traditional 108
labor unions 15
labor/leisure trade-off 239-43
leadership, workplace 196
LeGuin, Ursula 212-13, 253
Lekachman, Robert 74
Levy, David 253, 257
MAI 69
managers
central planning 49-51, 52
decision-making 70-1, 181-2
market socialism 79
marginal productivity, labor 34-5
market competition 3
market economies
allocation 11-12, 20, 66-7, 75-6, 118-19, 167-8, 275-6
diversity 161-2
division of labor 58-9
efficiency 71-8
equity 55-64, 113-14, 156
participatory planning as market allocation 265-71
public goods 211-12
re-equilibria 277
self-management 68-71
solidarity 64-7, 156, 158
workload 239-40
market socialism 1, 12, 24-5, 79-80, 113-14
markets, limited, parecon 275-81
Martin Luther King County 210-12, 215-18
Marx, Groucho 34
Marx, Karl 64-5, 239
means of production, private ownership 43-4, 89-90, 112, 170
meetings, too many 256-60
meritocracy 248-50
Microsoft 73
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Mill, John Stuart 1
minority groups, workplace 178
Morris, William 2
motivation
parecon 231-7
workplace 196-7
Mozart, W.A. 114-15
multinationals 4, 5, 69
NAFTA 69
Northstart Press 174-81
efficiency 194-7
participatory planning 184-93
Nove, Alec 118-19, 121-2
opportunity cost, social 123-6
outputs, planning 184-5
overtime, parecon 200-1
ownership 20
capitalist relations 26, 245
means of production 43-4, 89-90, 112, 170
parecon 24-5
allocation see allocation
attainability 301-2
collective consumption 210-12
compatibility with other institutions 286-8
councils 91-102
criticism 229-30
decision-making 94-102, 183-4
diversity 159-62, 244-7
efficiency 231-7
equity 157-8
excitement 300-1
human nature and 289-93
individual consumption 213-15
individuals vs society 261-4
job complexes 103-11
limited markets 275-81
meeting time 256-60
ownership 89-90
privacy vs participation 253-60
productivity 238-43
progress 248-52
provision for need 282-5
quality and equity 244-7
remuneration 112-17
self-management 163-9
solidarity 158-9
summary 8-13, 84-5, 155-6
vision 13-16, 294-9
participatory planning 12, 15, 21, 128-35, 138-47, 154-5, 158, 162, 168-9, 177-9, 184-93, 211, 220-5, 259-60, 262-3
as central planning 271-4
iterative process 129-32, 133, 136-8, 177-8, 188-93, 197-8, 220-7, 259-60
as market system 265-71
people, differing abilities 55-61
personal contribution, remuneration and 34-7
Pigouvian taxes 75, 76
Pitt, William 118, 119
planners, central planning 49-51, 51-4
planning
consumption 128-9, 215-18
convergence 134-5
decision-making 204-6, 263-4
evaluation 202-3
externalities 138-47
flexible updating 132-4, 278-81
individual decisions 238-9
long-range 219-21, 262-3
production 198-200
typical process 136-8
workplace 197-204
political institutions, markets as 66-7
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pollution 208
power, economic agents 39-41
precautionary principle, approach to uncertainty 295-9
prices
as communication tool 123-6
indicative 131-2, 136, 140, 151-2, 154, 223
market economies 75-6, 277
private ownership 8-9, 43-4, 78
elimination 79, 89-90
means of production 89-90, 152-3, 170
producers, market economies 66
production 19-20
alternative schemes 198-200
evaluation 202-3
planning 128-9, 279-81
self-management 163-5
productivity, parecon 203-4, 238-43
profits, maximization 72-4, 239
progress, parecon 248-52
property
income and 29-34, 114
inheritance 31-2, 152-3
ownership 20, 89-90
public goods
consumption 208-12
parecon 210-12
publishing
capitalist 173-4
participatory 174-81
qualitative information
central planning 52, 53
market economies 66
parecon 127, 223, 226-7
Reaganomics 76
red-light principle, approaches to uncertainty 295-9
reform, consequences 297-8
regions, self-sufficiency 81
remuneration 10-11, 14, 22-3
corporate division of labor 47-8
for effort 112-17, 152-4, 155, 170, 207, 231-3, 282
evaluation for 115-16
justice 113-17
market economies 58-64, 152
merit 249-50
norms 28-38
talent and 152-3
rent-seeking 72-3
Ricardo, David 34
Robinson, Joan 35
Salieri, Antonio 114-15
Schor, Juliet 239, 242
sectarianism, danger of 294-9
self-management 39-41
central planning 53, 54
consumption 165-7
corporate division of labor 45-6
decision-making 151, 155, 163-9
market economies 68-71
parecon 163-9, 262-3
self-sufficiency, regions 81
selfishness 290-1
Smith, Adam 21, 26, 30-1, 71
smoking, health impact 144
social contract 30
social costs, goods 140
social Darwinism 291
social institutions, parecon and 286-8
social opportunity cost 123-6
socialism 79-80
economics 1, 12, 24-5, 156
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society, parecon and 263-4, 282-5
solidarity 41, 44, 54
corporate division of labor 46-7
market economies 64-7
parecon 158-9, 188
solidarity economics 14-15
Solow, Robert 76
Soviet Union 50, 266-7
supply, participatory planning 133-4, 223
talent
income and 152-3
parecon and 244-7, 268-70
scarce 149-50
technology, oppressive 297
Thatcher, Margaret 121, 122
Tobin, James 76
training, incentives 235-6
transaction costs 76
uncertainty, approaches to 295-9
wages, just 62-3
wealth, distribution 1
welfare economics 74
work
enrichment 194-5
measures 126-7
organization 9-11
workers 26
capitalism 78
central planning 49-51, 52-3
cooperatives 14
decision-making 69-71
market socialism 79
plant operations 185-8
workers’ control 14-15
hiring and firing 205-6
incentives 252
information and communication 122-8
market economies 65-6
workers’ councils 70, 92-3, 106, 108
decision-making 94-102
participatory planning 128-35, 154-5, 177-9
working conditions, remuneration and 38
workplace
collective 14
democracy 45-6, 92-3
equal ownership 9
innovations, workers’ input 185-8
minority groups 178
motivation 196-7
parecon 104-11, 257-8
planning 197-204
self-management 163-5
working week 179-81
World Social Forum 16
World Bank 4-5, 6, 7, 69
World Trade Agency, proposed 5, 7, 8
World Trade Organization (WTO) 4-5, 6, 7
Yugoslavia 70