the id project introduced a very different conception from the usual one of economic democracy according to the id project economic democracy is the authority of demos community in the economic sphere—which requires equal distribution of economic power therefore all macro economic decisions namely decisions concerning the running of the economy as a whole overall level of production consumption and investment amounts of work and leisure implied technologies to be used etc are made by the citizen body collectively and without representation however "micro" economic decisions at the workplace or the household levels are made by the individual production or consumption unit through a proposed system of vouchers