Introduction
Part I: Preliminaries
1. Defining Goals
2. Social Democratic Capitalism
Part II: Central Planning
3. Central Planning: How to do it
4. Central Planning: Why not to do it
Part III: Participatory Economics
5. Participatory Economics in Brief
6. Digging Deeper into Participatory Economics
7. The Annual Participatory Planning Procedure
8. Computer Simulations of Participatory Planning
9. Reproductive Labor
Part IV: Investment Planning
10. Aggregate Investment Planning
11. Comprehensive Investment Planning
Part V: Long-Run Development Planning
12. Participatory Education Planning
13. Participatory Environmental Planning
14. Participatory International Economic Planning
15. After the Plan: Dispelling Common Confusions
Conclusion
Robin Hahnel is a Professor Emeritus from American University in Washington DC where he taught for thirty-three years. During the past fourteen years he taught as a Visiting Professor at Portland State University, Lewis and Clark College, and Willamette University in Oregon.
"Robin Hahnel’s remarkable study, the product of a lifetime of
serious thought and direct engagement, is directed to dreamers and
skeptics. The dreamers aspire to "an alliance of free groups of men
and women based on cooperative labor and a planned administration
of things in the interest of the community," in the words of a
traditional left-libertarian ideal. The skeptics regard this as
hopeless utopianism. With scrupulous analysis, deft technical
skill, and incisive vision, Hahnel explores a wide range of
potential problems and exciting opportunities, constructing a
strong case that the dreamers are the realists."- Noam Chomsky"This
new book occupies a unique position in the writings about
alternatives to capitalism. Robin Hahnel and his coauthors present
both a vision and a technical model of a participatory economy that
does not rely on competition or markets, while also reviewing other
approaches to capitalist alternatives. A must read for anyone
interested in structural solutions to the severe and persistent
economic and social problems of today."- David M. Kotz, Professor
Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
and Senior Research Fellow in the Political Economy Research
Institute
""A key contribution to the on-going debate on democratic and
participatory socialism. A must-read!"- Thomas Piketty"Robin
Hahnel’s remarkable study, the product of a lifetime of serious
thought and direct engagement, is directed to dreamers and
skeptics. The dreamers aspire to "an alliance of free groups of men
and women based on cooperative labor and a planned administration
of things in the interest of the community," in the words of a
traditional left-libertarian ideal. The skeptics regard this as
hopeless utopianism. With scrupulous analysis, deft technical
skill, and incisive vision, Hahnel explores a wide range of
potential problems and exciting opportunities, constructing a
strong case that the dreamers are the realists."- Noam Chomsky"This
new book occupies a unique position in the writings about
alternatives to capitalism. Robin Hahnel and his coauthors present
both a vision and a technical model of a participatory economy that
does not rely on competition or markets, while also reviewing other
approaches to capitalist alternatives. A must read for anyone
interested in structural solutions to the severe and persistent
economic and social problems of today."- David M. Kotz, Professor
Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
and Senior Research Fellow in the Political Economy Research
Institute"In Democratic Economic Planning, Professor Hahnel
proposes a theoretical conceptualization of participation and
self-management to address the different dilemmas of a more just,
fair and democratic economy, while avoiding bureaucratization...The
chapters of this book are exciting and suggest how we must work on
the transition process of moving from today’s societies as they
are…because it appears we humans are animals of acquired habits."-
José "Pepe" Mujica"Robin Hahnel has emerged as a major figure in
the movement to build a vision of a superior economic way of life,
one that could replace the capitalist present with a system of
equality, worker participation, democracy, planning, and human
fulfillment...[thisbook] should be considered essential reading in
a field that will become more and more central to social and
political debate in our polarizing and dangerous world."- David
Laibman, Science & Society
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