Abstract This article presents a new approach to the socialist calculation debate. I focus particularly on the question of how to integrate information of consumers’s preferences and argue that the objections raised by Austrian economists against the socialist model proposed…
After the financial crash of 2008, the ability of the ruling classes in the West to maintain a level of social compromise on the home front has been largely exhausted. As Wolfgang Streeck has argued, after the onset of the…
La principale racine de nos problèmes politiques modernes est que nous appelons démocratie son strict contraire : l’élection est aristocratique, par définition (on élit le meilleur, le meilleur = aristos). Et pourtant les fondateurs de nos régimes — dont le…
Claim and Qualification For the first time in well over 70 years, the words “capitalism” and “socialism” can be circulated among the general public in the United States. However, what I am going to claim in this article is that…
La “producción entre pares basada en bienes comunes” (commons-based peer production) Imaginémonos un mundo en donde la producción y la reproducción se basan en las necesidades de todos y son organizadas por personas libres que se reparten voluntariamente las actividades…
Abstract The free software and free culture movements have radically changed the ways of producing software and knowledge goods. In many cases, participation in such project is benefit-driven rather than profit-driven. Participants get involved in order to realize some practical…
My name is Heinz Dieterich and I am originally a German citizen. I went to Mexico about 30 years ago; after I studied economics and sociology at Frankfurt with Adorno, Horkheimer and Habermas. The idea to do something about a…
4. El nuevo proyecto histórico:Democracia participativa (socialismo), siglo XXI 4.1. La economía planificada de equivalências La economía de mercado (crematística) no es capaz de satisfacer adecuadamente las necessidades socioeconómicas y ecológicas de un conjunto mundial de casi siete mil millones…
According to the media, socialism is dead whereas capitalism is triumphant. I submit that both claims are false. Socialism is not dead because it was never alive except on paper, and capitalism is far from being in good economic or…
ABSTRACT: The labor theory of value provides both a moral and a conceptual foundation for an equitable and efficient socialism. Given modern information technology, a system of planning can work. Markets in consumer goods are required, but not markets for…