{"id":7609,"date":"2022-06-08T18:16:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T15:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/?p=7609"},"modified":"2022-06-08T18:16:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T15:16:56","slug":"mwp14en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/en\/mwp14en\/","title":{"rendered":"Participatory Economics Overview: What, Why, How | Alexandria Shaner &#038; Michael Albert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Centre for Postcapitalist Civilisation, m\u03adta, presents Alexandria Shaner&#8217;s &amp; Michael Albert&#8217;s <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-accent-color\">m\u03adta Working Paper<\/mark><\/strong> entitled<em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-accent-color\"><strong><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/14EN-mWP-Shaner-Albert-PARECON.pdf\">Participatory Economics Overview: What, Why, How<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/mark><\/em> (accessible <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/14EN-mWP-Shaner-Albert-PARECON.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong>), part of the \u201cTowards (a Better) Postcapitalism: A Handy How-To Guide\u201d series under &#8220;Allocation.&#8221;  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-primary-color has-text-color has-background\" style=\"background-color:#18d85b\"><strong>DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.55405\/mwp14en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.55405\/mwp14en<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>m\u03adta Working Papers\u2019 series \u201cTowards (a Better) Postcapitalism: A Handy How-To Guide\u201d publishes solicited policy papers on aspects of how would a non-dystopian postcapitalism look like. The series focuses on three \u2018pillars\u2019:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-primary-color has-text-color has-background\" style=\"background-color:#18d85b\"><strong>Production | Allocation | Decision Making<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>i.e., how could\/would postcapitalist <em>production<\/em> be like (and who would own the means of production), what shape would the <em>allocation<\/em> of goods take (and which alternatives to the market economy may be explored), and what would be the main tenets of postcapitalist <em>decision making<\/em> and <em>democracy<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/14EN-mWP-Shaner-Albert-PARECON.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">In this paper<\/a>, Alexandria Shaner &amp; Michael Albert provide an overview of PARECON (\u2018participatory economics\u2019) as a viable postcapitalist model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/14EN-mWP-Shaner-Albert-PARECON.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"PDF embed\"><\/object><a href=\"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/14EN-mWP-Shaner-Albert-PARECON.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>DOWNLOAD PDF<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>(Earlier additions to the \u201cTowards (a Better) Postcapitalism: A Handy How-To Guide\u201d series include <a href=\"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/en\/mwp2en\/\">Professor Robin Hahnel&#8217;s paper on <em><strong>Participatory Planning<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/en\/mwp4en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Michael Albert&#8217;s papers on <em><strong>Postcapitalist Decision Making<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, on <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/en\/mwp6en\/\">Postcapitalist Work: Balanced Jobs and Equitable Remuneration<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and on<em> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/en\/mwp9en\/\">Postcapitalist Allocation: Participatory Planning<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/en\/mwp8en\/\">Professor Stephen R. Shalom paper<em><strong>\u00a0Decision-Making in a Good Society: The Case for Nested Councils<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark>Alexandria Shaner<\/mark><\/strong> is a sailor, writer, organizer, and activist. Based in the southern Caribbean, she is an in-structor at the School for Social and Cultural Change and active with RealUtopia.org and The Climate Reality Project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark>Michael Albert<\/mark><\/strong> is a founder and current member of the staff of\u00a0<strong>Z Magazine<\/strong> as well as staff of\u00a0<em>Z Magazine\u2019<\/em>s web system:\u00a0<strong>ZCom<\/strong><em>.<\/em> He is a member of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/en\/michael-albert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">m\u03adta&#8217;s Advisory Board<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0Albert\u2019s 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,\u00a0<em>Z Magazine<\/em>, the Z Media Institute, and ZNet, and to working on all these projects, writing for various publications and publishers, giving public talks, etc. Albert is the author of 21 books. Most recently these include: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/en\/introducing-no-bosses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>No Bosses: A New Economy for a Better World<\/em><\/a><\/strong> (Zero Books, 2021), <em>Fanfare for the Future<\/em> (ZBooks), <em>Remembering Tomorrow<\/em> (Seven Stories Press),\u00a0<em>Realizing Hope\u00a0<\/em>(Zed Press) and <em>Parecon: Life After Capitalism<\/em> (Verso).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre for Postcapitalist Civilisation, m\u03adta, presents Alexandria [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-parts\/content-publications.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_events_control_status":"","_tribe_events_control_status_canceled_reason":"","_tribe_events_control_status_postponed_reason":"","_tribe_events_control_online":"","_tribe_events_control_online_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7609"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7622,"href":"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7609\/revisions\/7622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}