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	<title>Comments on: The Road Not Taken</title>
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		<title>By: michael_green</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Surely economic prosperity has to be reconciled with the &#039;mode of production&#039; to create individual autonomy.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In other words, consumer choice in public services may be most effective at reconciling individual autonomy with economic prosperity and public service prosperity. Radical democratization also has it&#039;s place, but mass assemblies and direct democracy are so time constraining that they often come into conflict with economic prosperity and public service productivity in a capitalist economy going through rapid globalization.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Surely economic prosperity has to be reconciled with the &#39;mode of production&#39; to create individual autonomy.</p>
<p>In other words, consumer choice in public services may be most effective at reconciling individual autonomy with economic prosperity and public service prosperity. Radical democratization also has it&#39;s place, but mass assemblies and direct democracy are so time constraining that they often come into conflict with economic prosperity and public service productivity in a capitalist economy going through rapid globalization.</p>
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		<title>By: michael_green</title>
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		<dc:creator>michael_green</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How does this translate into policy?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In what ways could self-government and deliberative democracy be applied to public services like education and the NHS, so as to create individual autonomy?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How does this translate into policy?</p>
<p>In what ways could self-government and deliberative democracy be applied to public services like education and the NHS, so as to create individual autonomy?</p>
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