the former requires that basic macro–economic decisions have to be taken democratically whereas the latter requires the individual to take important decisions affecting hisher own life what work to do what to consume etc both the macro–economic decisions and the individual citizens’ decisions are envisaged as being implemented through a combination of democratic planning and an artificial market but while in the ‘macro’ decisions the emphasis will be on planning the opposite will be true as regards the individual decisions where the emphasis will be on the artificial market