Editing Planned economy (section)

==== Suppression of economic democracy and self-management ====
{{Main|Socialist democracy}}

Economist [[Robin Hahnel]], who supports [[participatory economics]], a form of [[socialist]] decentralized planned economy, notes that even if central planning overcame its inherent inhibitions of incentives and innovation, it would nevertheless be unable to maximize economic democracy and self-management, which he believes are concepts that are more intellectually coherent, consistent and just than mainstream notions of economic freedom.<ref name="Hahnel, Robin 2002">{{cite book|last=Hahnel|first=Robin|title=The ABC's of Political Economy|location=London|publisher=Pluto Press|year=2002|isbn=0-7453-1858-4|page=262}}</ref> Furthermore, Hahnel states:
<blockquote>Combined with a more democratic political system, and redone to closer approximate a best case version, centrally planned economies no doubt would have performed better. But they could never have delivered economic self-management, they would always have been slow to innovate as apathy and frustration took their inevitable toll, and they would always have been susceptible to growing inequities and inefficiencies as the effects of differential [[economic power]] grew. Under central planning neither planners, managers, nor workers had incentives to promote the social economic interest. Nor did impeding markets for final goods to the planning system enfranchise consumers in meaningful ways. But central planning would have been incompatible with economic democracy even if it had overcome its information and incentive liabilities. And the truth is that it survived as long as it did only because it was propped up by unprecedented totalitarian political power.<ref name="Hahnel, Robin 2002"/></blockquote>