Clarifications on democracy and economic planning: an engagement with Robin Hahnel. Issue 2 (4th May 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Adaman, Fikret; Devine, Pat
• Is Part Of: Studies in political economy. Volume 103:Issue 2(2022)
• Page Start: 173
• Page End: 181
• Publication Date: 2022-05-04
• Subjects: Democratic economic planning -- Devine -- Hahnel -- participatory planning; Economics -- Political aspects -- Periodicals; Socialism -- Periodicals; Economics -- Periodicals; Canada -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals; Economie politique -- Périodiques; Canada -- Conditions économiques -- Périodiques; Economic history; Economics; Canada; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 330
• DOI: 10.1080/07078552.2022.2096778
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0707-8552

Abstract

Abstract: Models developed by Robin Hahnel and Pat Devine both claim to rest on democratic planning in an ecosocialist society. Whereas Hahnel depends on a neoclassical framework (commensurability of goods, assumption of homo economics, reliance on marginal costs-benefits), Devine relies on knowledge in different forms as articulated at the individual, institutional, and societal levels by the social owners at each level and incorporates a transformatory dynamic through which particular interests are negotiated into a socially constructed general interest. This paper is part of the "Democratic Economic Planning" theme.