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?
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?