Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 12:36:01 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Wayne Austin <aaustin-AT-utkux.utcc.utk.edu> Subject: Re: M-I: planning please On planning versus markets. One of the underdeveloped problematics in these posts is the assumption that personal wants and needs are individually produced, and therefore it follows from this that markets offer the best mechanism for delivering on this atomistic consumptive behavior. This completely ignores the reality that human needs and wants are socially produced. Markets today are inducements to consumption to maintain profit levels, not production meeting naturally-occurring wants and needs. Therefore a key assumption (perhaps *the* key assumption) underpinning the market argument is derived >from neoclassical political economic theory and is most certainly fallacious. This boiling the individuals out of their historical and social context is the worst sort of political economic analysis. It is pure ideology. Andrew Austin --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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