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

[John Thornton]

Miles Jackson wrote:
> 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 

Planning isn't central planning is it?

John Thornton