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The organisational contours of an unorthodox mixed-economy
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This lengthy chapter defines how the ‘freedom to do/become’ strand in freedom as Marxian-autonomy is embodied within a self-determining policy. The product mix is determined by an unconventional combination of non-statist planning and a non-capitalist market system. Through an engagement with Hayek’s sceptical epistemology, the chapter indicates how a subordinated market, regulated by the guilds and consumer councils, can fulfil social imperatives. Whilst his critique of state socialist planning is not challenged, the chapter argues that the domination of enterprise monopoly in a neo-liberal economy, with its irrevocable administration through central planning, cannot be routinely prevented. From here the chapter indicates the specific ways in which domination by any kind of tyranny will be prevented in the guild system. Participatory planning is arranged through the transparent deliberations between, at the most immediate level, the whole local guild and a corresponding department of the cooperative consumer council, then at the regional levels between the guilds, or the Industrial Guild Congress (IGC), and the two consumer councils. The latter will, through continuous deliberations with the local guilds, play a large role in coordinating agents’ interpersonal relations. At the local level, the cooperative consumer councils will fulfil their objectives through both planning (pre-production) and by perfecting market deficiencies (post-production), including where necessary the blocking of certain products. These measures provide the optimal means through which agents can effectively self-assess their given desires, and, chiefly, for exposing and eradicating the harmful effects of externalities.

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