Centralization

[John Mage]

Doug wrote:
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> Bradford DeLong wrote:
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>>They *are* experimenting with the process. How do you think 
>>something like AT&T or Toyota manages its own internal division of 
>>labor? I think the right point is not a Hayekian "planning is 
>>impossible" point, but instead a question of accountability: what 
>>(or whose) ends is the organization serving?
> 
> 
> Well, that's a political question about economic organization of the 
> sort that price system mystics don't like to talk about.
> 
> Doug

Couldn't agree with Brad more, and with Doug.
This was Ernest Mandel's favorite point; repeated each of the few times 
I heard him and in almost every article and book of his I read.

john mage