Parecon and the ghost in the machine

First published May 21, 2005

Ive been reading ideas on Parecon http://www.zmag.org/parecon/indexnew.htm for a while now. It occurred to me a few years back that human beings working within a Parecon as described by Michael Albert and his crew will require considerable emotional intelligence for it to work. Hence, while a powerful conceptual framework, it seemed utopian to me.

Of course another way of saying this is that Parecon plus psychology will give more powerful insights into self organising economic communities. Who knows the secrets of the black magic box?