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

[Miles Jackson]

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