Open Loop In Natura Economic Planning
This work addresses the challenge of economic planning for societies seeking alternatives to market systems, though it appears incremental within the existing tradition of Marx, Leontief, Kantorovich, Beer, and Cockshott.
The authors tackled the problem of societal surplus allocation by proposing an automated planning system that operates at the unit level, such as factories and citizens, as an alternative to market-based organization. Their experiments demonstrate that this system can plan for up to 50,000 industrial goods and 5,000 final goods using commodity hardware.
The debate between the optimal way of allocating societal surplus (i.e. products and services) has been raging, in one form or another, practically forever; following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the market became the only legitimate form of organisation -- there was no other alternative. Working within the tradition of Marx, Leontief, Kantorovich, Beer and Cockshott, we propose what we deem an automated planning system that aims to operate on unit level (e.g., factories and citizens), rather than on aggregate demand and sectors. We explain why it is both a viable and desirable alternative to current market conditions and position our solution within current societal structures. Our experiments show that it would be trivial to plan for up to 50K industrial goods and 5K final goods in commodity hardware.