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Znet Article Albert: Participatory Economics

Znet Article, November, 19 2008 Michael Albert
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According to most economists, the activities of separate groups of producers and consumers can be coordinated by markets or by authoritarian planning—but there is no “third way.”

Znet Article Albert: Socialism As It Was Always Meant To Be

Znet Article, November, 18 2008 Michael Albert
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As the twentieth century draws to a close, what have we learned about how we should manage our economic affairs? What should we do if we had the opportunity to start again?

Znet Article Albert: Venezuelan Direct Democracy: The case of the Consejos Comunales.

Znet Article, November, 18 2008 Michael Albert
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In 2004, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez created a movement named the consejos comunales (communal councils) aimed at creating more responsive local governance by handing local budgetary and legislative power to the councils. This movement was se...

Znet Article Albert: Markets Über Alles?

Znet Article, November, 18 2008 Michael Albert
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Other than broad references to income distribution, homelessness, infrastructure, and ecology, most efforts to demonstrate the above points have been abstract and have not yet convinced even progressive economists, much less the broad population. ...

Znet Article Albert: Neoclassical Micro And Macro Economics--Science Or Silliness?

Znet Article, November, 18 2008 Michael Albert
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BY ITS own claims economics is the most scientific "social science." Yet non-economist critics such as E.F. Schumacher tell us that "to produce [economic] figures about the unknown, the current method is to make a guess about something or other--c...

Znet Article Albert: When the Ship Comes In

Znet Article, November, 18 2008 Michael Albert
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The following is a slightly revised transcript of the Testimony Presentation by Michael Albert delivered at the World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2002.

Znet Article Albert: Participatory Economics Interview

Znet Article, November, 18 2008 Michael Albert
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We're in the studio today with Michael Albert, activist and author of several books, including Looking Forward from South End Press and Political Economy of Participatory Economics from Princeton University Press, and co-founder and editor of Z Ma...

Znet Article Albert: ParEcon

Znet Article, November, 18 2008 Michael Albert
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I call those fallen Eastern Bloc economies coordinator economies because coordinators are the people in the economy who largely monopolize empowering work, higher incomes, great power, and high status, all of it justified by educational credential...

Znet Article Albert: We Can Win!

Znet Article, November, 14 2008 Michael Albert
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To retain control of oil prices, forestall a peace dividend, and divert attention from the abominable price of Reagan's war on the poor, Bush threatens to unleash rivers of blood in the Mideast. Only fear of international isolation, potentially hy...

Znet Article Albert: Buying Dreams: Visions For A Better Future

Znet Article, November, 14 2008 Michael Albert
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Left activists are moved, first and foremost, by refusal to tolerate injustice. Still, a clear conception of improved social relations can help us understand injustices we oppose and visions, of more desirable futures can help sustain and orient s...

Commentary Albert: Obama Mania?

Commentary, November, 06 2008 Michael Albert
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Post Election Thoughts...

Znet Article Albert: An Interview I Would Love To Read

Znet Article, November, 04 2008 Michael Albert
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An look into the possible future, two years from now...

Znet Article Albert: Concluding Comments for Exchange with Wayne Price

Znet Article, October, 05 2008 Michael Albert
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Wayne and I agree on the need to address all dimensions of life, though I perhaps regard kinship, culture, and polity more on a par with economy and class than Wayne does – a difference that didn’t get emphasized in the exchange.

Znet Article Albert: On the death of capitalism

Znet Article, October, 04 2008 Michael Albert
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Interview with Ceasefire Magazine...

Znet Article Lanz: Interview On Venezuelan Workplaces with Carlos Lanz

Znet Article, October, 03 2008 Carlos Lanz
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Carlos Lanz is an advisor to the Ministry of Education and former director of the Aluminum processing plant Alcasa, which was one of the first experiments in creating a socialist enterprise in Venezuela, in which the workers run one of the country...

Znet Article Albert: Rejoining Price’s Reply

Znet Article, October, 02 2008 Michael Albert
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To avoid going in circles, I will try to be brief…except on the matter of self-sufficiency and scale, which seems to concern many people on the left, particularly anarchists and Greens.

Znet Article Albert: Replying to Price’s Response

Znet Article, September, 30 2008 Michael Albert
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You remain troubled that parecon doesn’t aim for self-sufficiency...

Znet Article Albert: Responding to Revolutionary Class-Struggle Anarchism

Znet Article, September, 29 2008 Michael Albert
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Debate continued...

Znet Article Albert: Parecon & Movement Building

Znet Article, September, 27 2008 Michael Albert
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Wanting parecon for the economy implies a commitment to justice consistent with wanting revolutionary transformation of other spheres of life as well. To overcome cynicism, guide practice, deepen support, avoid hypocrisy, and learn as we go, we ne...

Znet Article Albert: Politics In Venezuela

Znet Article, September, 21 2008 Michael Albert
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An extensive interview about the polity in Venezuela, held with Julio Chavez, Mayor of Carora and prominent activist in all dimensions of the Bolivarian Revolution, especially concerning the Communal Councils.

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