[lbo-talk] IT innovation and "the Markets"

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Thu Mar 5 14:01:57 PST 2009


SA wrote:
> Carrol Cox wrote:
>
>> Has anyone said replace them with central planning?
>>
>> No one I know has.
>>
>
> Production with division of labor can be either planned or unplanned.
> Those are the only two options. If it's unplanned it's a market. If
> all production is planned, it's central planning - no matter how
> decentralized, democratic or participatory the decision-making process
> is. Even Michael Albert's Parecon is central planning - there's a
> single, central plan.
>
> SA
Umm--are you arguing that multinational corporations don't do "central planning"? Really?

Miles



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