caa a22 4500 386384487 CHVBK 20180307112054.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0265052500000625 doi S0265052500000625 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0265052500000625 Cohen Joshua Philosophy and Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Economic Basis of Deliberative Democracy [Elektronische Daten] [Joshua Cohen] There are two principal philosophical conceptions of socialism, corresponding to two interpretations of the notion of a rational society. The first conception corresponds to an instrumental view of social rationality. Captured by the image of socialism as "one big workshop,” the instrumental view holds that social ownership of the means of production is rational because it promotes the optimal development of the productive forces. Social ownership is optimal because it eliminates the costs of coordination imposed by the conduct of economic activities in formally independent enterprises, and, more generally, overcomes fetters on development that result from the control of resources by individuals whose particular interests (in profit) imperfectly correspond to a general interest in productive advance. Copyright © Social Philosophy and Policy Foundation 1989 Social Philosophy and Policy Cambridge University Press 6/2(1989), 25-50 0265-0525 6:2<25 1989 6 SOY https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265052500000625 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265052500000625 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Cohen Joshua Philosophy and Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Philosophy and Policy Cambridge University Press 6/2(1989), 25-50 0265-0525 6:2<25 1989 6 SOY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge