Table of Contents
Acknowledgments viii
Preface To No Bosses Noam Chomsky 1
Preface to No Bosses Yanis Varoufakis 6
Introduction: Beyond Depravity, A New Economy 13
1 Values for A Better World 20
Finding Worthy Values 21
A Value for Decision-Making 22
A Value for Benefits and Burdens 24
A Value for Human Interrelations 27
A Value for Range of Life Options
A Value for Environmental Relations 28
A Value for International Relations
A Value for the Applicability of Our Values 29
What's Next?
2 Who Owns What? 30
That's Mine, Dammit
That's Our's In Common, Dammit 33
3 Who Decides What? 36
Whys and Hows of Self-Management
Problems and Virtues of Self-Management 39
We All Decide 44
4 Who Does What? 46
Out with the Old Boss, In with the New Boss
Out with the Old Boss, in with No Bosses 52
Empowerment Equity 58
Is This for Real? 65
We All Do Balanced Jobs 68
5 Who Earns What? 69
Equitable Income
The Measurement Problem 78
The Incentive Problem 82
The Anarchist Objection 88
Conclusion 96
6 Who Likes Markets and Central Planning? 98
Allocation As We Know It
Rejecting Central Planning 100
Rejecting Markets 103
Our Allocation Problem 109
An Anti-Academic Addendum 110
7 Who Allocates What? 113
Participatory Planning Take 1: Requirements 114
Participatory Planning Take 2: Bare Bones 116
Participatory Planning Take 3: Adding Some Texture 118
Participatory Planning Take 4: Making Plan Proposals 120
Participatory Planning Take 5: Some Preliminary Judgments and Questions 122
Participatory Planning Take Variations 127
Participatory Planning Take 7: Information and Communication 130
Participatory Planning Take 8: Allocation Organization 138
Steps of Participatory Planning 139
Preparing First Proposals 140
Proceeding from One Proposal to Another 143
Flexible Updating 146
Converging On a Plan 149
Participatory Planning Take 9: Some Additional Features 151
Collective Consumption and Externalities
Income Via Allocation 161
Investment 166
Conclusion 168
8 Participatory Economics and Other Sides of Life 171
Participatory Polity and Participatory Economy
Participatory Kinship and Participatory Economy 173
Participatory Culture/Community and Participatory Economy 181
Participatory Ecology and Participatory Economy 182
Participatory Art or Artistic Economy? 184
9 Winning A New Economy: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 187
Vision and Reforms
Vision and Organization 190
Vision and Winning 196
10 Origins, Prospects, and History of Participatory Economics 199
Selected References 217
Predecessors
Origins 218
Presentations/Elaborations/Parallel Efforts 219
Some Websites 220