The promise of participatory planning: a rejoinder to Hodgson

Authors: Adaman, Fikret; Devine, Pat

Source: Economy and Society, Volume 35, Number 1, Number 1/February 2006 , pp. 141-147(7)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

This note is a rejoinder to Hodgson's second attempt at a critique of our model of participatory planning through negotiated coordination. The rejoinder is organized under four headings: market exchange and market forces/negotiated coordination; subsidiarity and pluralism; innovation, entrepreneurship, and tacit knowledge; and autonomy and self-government. We consider Hodgson's characterization of our position to be a travesty and rebut his assertions under each heading. The note concludes with a restatement of the promise of participatory planning – a self-governing society in which people have both the right to autonomy and privacy and also the right and responsibility to participate in the running of their society's economy, rather than leaving economic activity to be shaped by an economic ruling class and/or the coercion of market forces.

Keywords: participation; economic planning; negotiated coordination; tacit knowledge; entrepreneurship; deliberative decision-making; autonomy; self-government

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/03085140500465923

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