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How to Make a Pencil

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A recipe for a cookshop of the future.

How to Make a Pencil Aaron Benanav Capitalism is over, if you want it. What would a socialist economy look like? The answers to this question vary, but most of them involve planning. A capitalist economy is organized through the interaction of prices and markets. A socialist economy, by contrast, would be “consciously regulated… in accordance with a settled plan,” to borrow a line from Marx. But how would such a plan be made and implemented? This has been a matter of sharp debate among socialists for more than a century. One camp has placed particular emphasis on computers. These “ digital soc

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