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Albert: Soc Student…Last
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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> I can't help but wonder whether any system can survive if it is too complex for the general public to understand. Is this serous? Parecon has a few key institutions and concepts, which a junior high school student could easily understand. To ...
Albert: Soc student…Sixth
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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> In his model, Albert argues for balanced job complexes instead of a labor market. Balanced job complexes replace corporate division of labor – not labor markets. Hiring and also firing of workers is not a market exchange because the terms are ...
Albert: Soc Student…fifth
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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> 1. Ease of Communicating the Parecon Model to Others – Personally, I find that a major obstacle to many reforms is the inability to plainly summarize the proposed reform and the rationale for implementing it (i.e. as if one is organizing behind ...
Albert: Soc – Fourth Student
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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The fourth student likes the ideas that, First, “participatory consumers must weigh the benefits of consumption requests against the sacrifices required to produce them.” Second, “participatory consumers must distinguish reasonable consumption req...
Albert: Soc 292 - The Third Student
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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Hmmmmm…these student comments are a bit longer than I anticipated…also a bit less in touch with the actual characteristics of parecon…but I started so I guess I will continue, though a bit more summarily than I had hoped, given these attributes. ...
Albert: Soc 292 - The Second Student
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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The second student worries about parecon's method of allocation. > For the purposes of making decision about allocation, Albert advocates 'decentralized participatory planning' (p. 122), in which members of a parecon, in their respective capacit...
Albert: Soc 292: Parecon Comments
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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In perusing the internet I found a pdf of comments by students, I think, of a sociology course (292) that used parecon for a reading. I thought I might briefly react to its contents in a few blog posts. The first student, after indicating his bro...
Albert: The World and the US
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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Recently on a number of occasions I have told people asking about how parecon the book and of course the model was doing, that it was an odd situation In the U.S., I have replied, while there is a lot of progress being made, especially as compare...
Albert: Gloves Off
Blog Post, July, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I guess I am all out of patience and running dry on civility as well. Is it unreasonable to want to know where the left stands regarding capitalism and “other worlds”? Are various movements, institutions, media outlets, and constituencies anti-ca...
Albert: Market Madness
Znet Article, June, 13 2004
Michael Albert
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1) In Poland a growing number of economists are in favour of free market ideology. They called themselves 'anarchists' or 'libertarian' economists. Would you call them the same? What does the term 'anarchy' in economy mean, in your opinion? Free...
Albert: The Reagan Phenomena
Blog Post, June, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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What the hell? Reagan, one of the least popular presidents, one of the dumbest presidents, and one of the most morally vile preseidents in American history (which is saying a whole lot) is celebrated in death like no other president since Kennedy ...
Albert: Interview for Polish Outlet
Blog Post, June, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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I was recently interviewed for Polish publication about matters of media manipulation, etc. 1) Recently I've realised that very important thing in Poland is special kind of censorship. Its dangerous because most people are not aware of this. Befo...
Albert: New Organization?
Blog Post, June, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Assuming we all fight for social change in the expectation that we will, at some point, win -- and assuming that we fight for a whole new social system, again, in the expectation that at some point we will win -- it follows that at some point ther...
Albert: Parecon and Society -- chapters
Blog Post, June, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
This is a list of possible chapters for a book on p[arecon and society. What others topics might be of interest? Supposing you could read anyone writing on any of these or other topics, whose views would you be interested in? Parecon and Polity ...
Albert: Parecon and Society: Education
Blog Post, June, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
This is a draft of a possible chapter, giving a broad idea of what they might be like...again, only a draft. Parecon and Education Part of education is intrinsic and oriented to the individual. To think about education starting with the student...
Albert: Parecon and Society: Parecon Overview
Blog Post, June, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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This would be an opening chapter of this possible new book, summarizing parecon itself. Remember, these are merely drafts I am sharing in the blog...looking for some reactions. Parecon: An Overview Participatory economics, or parecon for short,...
Albert: Parecon and Society: Possible Intro
Blog Post, June, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I am thinking about the possibility of a new book perhaps entitled Parecon and Society. It would be about what having a parecon would mean for the rest of society, beyond the economy. I am curious if people think such a book would be useful. I am ...
Albert: Replying to a Review
Blog Post, June, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Recently I got an email telling me about a review of a book of mine, Looking Forward (SEP 1991) linked on the theory page of Anarcho-Syndicalist Review (http://www.syndicalist.org/theory/parecon1.shtml) I read it and was rather surprised by some o...
Albert: Economics and Parecon
Blog Post, June, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
A second interview for Polish publication... 1) Many economists, for example L. Mises and other austrian economists, think that private ownership of means of production is a necessity. They argue that without private ownership of means of product...
Albert: Market Madness
Blog Post, June, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I was asked to do an email interview by a friend from Poland, for publication there, dealing with a rising tide of market ideology among Polish economists. Since it bears on issues of parecon, I thought I might as well convey it here, as well... ...
