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What's below is part of the latest "what's new at links" post. I am SOOO glad John found his old article! It's a great overview of the issues involved, and a necessary intervention in the current debate. One quibble: I think he's too hard on Mandel for the latter's touting of a priori decisions, because the rest of Mandel's essay is full of examples of how workers would alter decisions ex post based on new information (and on that note I love John's paragraph about how workers' skills and knowledge, bred under capitalism, prepare them to be efficient planners). ----------------------- John Riddell: Socialist planning and the bureaucratic economy <http://links.org.au/node/4438> By *John Riddell* May 17, 2015 -- The following previously unpublished position paper, pulled from my archives, was written in 1992. I am posting it in conjunction with my review of Michael Lebowitz’s *Contradictions of "Real Socialism"*. My comments raised many of the themes found in Lebowitz’s writings of that time, of which I was then quite unaware. My approach, however, gives more emphasis to the problem of economic allocation and the role of non-capitalist markets. _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
