i haven’t read it since i was a baby leftist socdem type, but iirc it’s more about modern capitalist planning than socialist planning. it does make the argument that they’re very similar to one another. there’s a chapter in there about project cybersyn which in hindsight kind of gives the impression it’s about computer-based planning more than anything else. idk where i was going with this comment but the book was one of the things that convinced me maybe there’s a future beyond market-deifying commodity fetishism
yeah I think the main argument of the book is to dispel the myth that economic planning doesn’t work, by giving the example of economic planning all around us all the time even in a capitalist economy. socialist planning would of course be vastly different because it would not focus on profit maximisation.
i haven’t read it since i was a baby leftist socdem type, but iirc it’s more about modern capitalist planning than socialist planning. it does make the argument that they’re very similar to one another. there’s a chapter in there about project cybersyn which in hindsight kind of gives the impression it’s about computer-based planning more than anything else. idk where i was going with this comment but the book was one of the things that convinced me maybe there’s a future beyond market-deifying commodity fetishism
yeah I think the main argument of the book is to dispel the myth that economic planning doesn’t work, by giving the example of economic planning all around us all the time even in a capitalist economy. socialist planning would of course be vastly different because it would not focus on profit maximisation.