Towards a Substantive and Democratic Macroeconomy: Linking Circular Flow Macroeconomics with the Substantive and Democratically Decided Aims of Societ

我的主要兴趣是帮助创造一个经济体系的想法，这个经济体系致力于为社会实现民主选择的实质性目标。我在我的硕士学位论文中开始了这方面的工作，重点是什么是形式理性和价格的可公度性，以及我们如何将某种形式理性归入实质理性之下。我使用了以Leontief(1986)、Sraffa(1960)和Wright(2015)为基础的投入产出方法，并提出可以将利润-成本二元复杂化为优先排序系统，以实现包括环境可持续性在内的实质性目标。这将允许根据社会优先事项进行生产，并允许民主控制社会产品的哪些部分可以随着不断变化的条件而变化。对于博士项目的第一部分，我想把这个想法发扬光大，把简单的模型复杂化，并在实践中找到实现它的机制。该项目的第二部分将侧重于民主决策，以及如何以尽可能防止伤害的方式处理各种和不可通约的规范性价值结构。我开始研究一种方法，从统计上衡量在并购中不同价值结构彼此不可比较的程度，并希望进一步考虑这一问题。

My primary interest is in helping to create ideas for an economic system which works to achieve democratically chosen, substantive ends for societies. I began work on this during my MA dissertation, which focused on what formal rationality and commensurability of price is, and how we might subsume some measure of formal rationality under substantive rationality. I used an input-output approach based on Leontief (1986), Sraffa (1960), and Wright (2015) and put forward the idea that the profit-cost binary could be complexified into a priority ordering system for the achievement of substantive ends, including environmental sustainability. This would allow production according to social priorities, and democratic control over which parts of the social product are allowed to vary in response to changing conditions. For the first part of the PhD project, I would like to take forward this idea and complexify the simple model, as well as find mechanisms which could achieve it in practice. The second part of the project will focus on democratic decision making, and how to deal with varying and incommensurable normative value structures in a way that prevents harm as much as possible. I began work on a way to statistically measure the level to which different value structures are incommensurable with each other at MA, and would like to think this through further.