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monkeydust
25th July 2004, 21:45
Economists traditionally note two key methods for resource allocation: The market and the planned economy.

Nearly all modern states have some kind of balance between the two, truly free markets of early industrial society and centrally planned economies of former Socialist states are equally rare.

Presumably, Anarchists (excluding Anarcho-Capitalists) would by definition be opposed both to the inequitable distribution of weallth generated by the market economy and allocation of resources through any political "centre of gravity".

How, then, would the Anarchists here propose to allocate resources in an efficient and practical manner, aside from the two traditinally competing methods?

apathy maybe
26th July 2004, 02:36
I would propse a distributed computer network. You place an order for x, the people that produce x then send you y amount of x on the next shipment going towards you.
If they need a and you produce it, then they send an order for b amount of a, and you send it to them.

Simple really. There is still supply and demand, if something is not demanded, it is not produced as much. If there is a lot of demand, then it is shared evenly.
And hopefully under an Anarchist/Communist (or even Socialist state) people will accept that they don't need a car all the time. When they aren't using the car, someone else can. (And they can use a bus, bike or pony most of the time.)