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Michael Albert A Participatory Economy produces, consumes, and allocates to meet people’s needs and develop their capacities. It also promotes equity, solidarity,…
Michael Albert
Michael Albert`s radicalization occurred during the 1960s. His political involvements, starting then and continuing to the present, have ranged from local, regional, and national organizing projects and campaigns to co-founding South End Press, Z Magazine, the Z Media Institute, and ZNet, and to working on all these projects, writing for various publications and publishers, giving public talks, etc. His personal interests, outside the political realm, focus on general science reading (with an emphasis on physics, math, and matters of evolution and cognitive science), computers, mystery and thriller/adventure novels, sea kayaking, and the more sedentary but no less challenging game of GO. Albert is the author of 21 books which include: No Bosses: A New Economy for a Better World; Fanfare for the Future; Remembering Tomorrow; Realizing Hope; and Parecon: Life After Capitalism. Michael is currently host of the podcast Revolution Z and is a Friend of ZNetwork.
Michael Albert Participatory planning is the allocation component of participatory economics. Producers and consumers organized in councils cooperatively negotiate labor, resource, and…
Michael Albert So far I have sent out an economic vision and strategy commentary each of the past eight Sundays. I assumed…
Michael Albert An economy needs some procedure for coordinating different workers’ activities with one another and with the desires of consumers. The…
Michael Albert We want to dignify work so we seek to equalize the empowerment effects of all jobs. But how? …
Michael Albert The issue of Dignified Work has two primary components: (1) what is a just division of tasks for each person;…
Michael Albert Agreeing that self-management, or decision making input in proportion as one is affected, is a core goal for a participatory…
Michael Albert How much say should each actor in an economy have over decisions in that economy? Why should we aim for…
Michael Albert Suppose we agree that people ought to be paid only according to how hard they work and how onerous their…
Michael Albert In a desirable economy what income does each actor get to enjoy? What is the basis for remuneration? Rewarding Property?…