For what it's worth, I respect Robin and Michael's
effort to introduce a democratic aspect to the planning
process, which seems to me to be the main virtue of their
system. I also note that I raised one problem
(aggregation) that has so far not received an answer.
Barkley Rosser
On Tue, 25 Mar 1997 12:59:25 -0800 (PST) Robin Hahnel
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> Michael Albert and I developed our utopian model of a participatory economy
> in large part in response to our historical evaluation of the strengths and
> weaknesses of the Soviet, Chinese, Yugoslavian, and Cuban experiences. We
> wrote about those experiences for 2/3 of a book -- Socialism Today and
> Tomorrow (SEP 1981) -- before offering any utopian ideas for 1/3 of the
> same book. I have taught comparative socialism for over 20 years and visited
> Cuba 3 times. I have spent 6 weeks in work with Cuban planners at JUCEPLAN.
> My utopian ideas are NOT UNBASED in 20th century real world experiences.
> Louis, you talk too often before you know of what you speak.
--
Rosser Jr, John Barkley
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