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，这个体系能够为社会实现民主选择的、实质性的目标。我在我的硕士论文中开始了这方面的工作，重点是什么是价格的形式合理性和可接受性，以及我们如何在实质合理性下取代某种形式合理性。我使用了基于Leontief（1986），Slaffa（1960）和Wright（2015）的投入产出方法，并提出了利润-成本二进制可以复杂化为实现实质性目标的优先顺序系统的想法，包括环境可持续性。这将允许根据社会优先事项进行生产，并对社会产品的哪些部分可以根据变化的条件进行民主控制。对于博士项目的第一部分，我想提出这个想法，并将简单的模型复杂化，并找到可以在实践中实现它的机制。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不同的和不可分割的规范性价值结构。我开始研究一种方法，以统计方式衡量不同价值结构在MA中相互不可分割的程度，并希望进一步思考这一点。

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.