Re: Schweickart's "Worker-Control Socialism"

[Chegitz Guevara <mluziett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 17 Jan 1996, Justin Schwartz wrote:

> Louis attacks Schweickart's model by pointing at what happened in
> Yugoslavia, as if all the successes of the former-Y economy could be
> attributed to Western aid and the destruction of Y itself to market
> socialism. This is a silly method of proceeding, analogous to the argument
> that centrally planned socialism is impossible, look what happened to the
> ex-USSR. Actually I think the latter argument is rather better, though far
> from conclusive, because what happened in the FSU at least tends to
> vindicate a plausible predictive theory of the collapse of central
> planning, viz., the Mises-Hayek calculation problem.
>
> --Justin

Three points on the central planing always falls down argument. One, the
survey sample wasn't large enough to to justify making any blanket
statements. Only about 11 countries adopted central planning as their
model, compared with around 179 using the market. Two, the control group
(the market countries) kept interfering with the experiemental group
(results are therefore skewed). Three, those countries which adopted
central planning were the among the poorest nations economically and
politically, hardly good material for running any economy.

Marc, "the Chegitz," Luzietti
personal homepage: http://shrike.depaul.edu/~mluziett
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"I just saved your fucking life Mom," YT said, "the least you could is to
offer me an Oreo."

Neal Stephenson's, "Snow Crash."



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