Talk:Price system

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Some possible additions to this article include:

1. History of the Price System (its necessity, base)

2. Development throughout Industrialization

3. Talk about its shortcomings

4. Characteristics of a Price System

[edit] Debate about the nature of this article

Ok obviously there is some disagreement on what this article should be about, so lets talk about it here. It's been stated that the term Price system is used as a definition in Economics, but it is obviously also used by the Technocracy Movement (as you can see from the links, although it would be good to have further links). Now it would seem that the Technocratic definition or viewpoint is different from the economics one. So what are we to do?

My opinion is that this article should be about the Technocracy movement’s meaning of the word, as it is a clearly defined definition commonly used by Technocrats, and as there are already many articles dealing with the economic meaning. An alternative would be to have this article as the economics meaning and have a separate article on "Technocracy's view of the Price System" or something like that. --Hibernian 17:54, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

You don't seem to understand that the reason that the Technocracy movement uses the term is because it's the standard term in economics. The Technocracy movement is not using the term in different way than anyone else uses the term. It's not a different meaning. Working Poor 01:28, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Ok, obviously the way it was wasn't going to work, so I've gone ahead and split the article. This article will be about the Economic view of the Term Price system, and the new article Technocratic views of the Price system, will be about Technocrats usage of the term. I've removed the references to Technocracy’s viewpoint thought out the article, and put the Technocrat-centred version into the new article. I suggest you work on removing the rest of the stuff written by Technocrats, as it will be of little use to the article now. --Hibernian 18:22, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Why do you think it's a different definition? I don't understand. When economists talk of "the price system" they are talking about what the Technocracy Movement is talking about too. Specifically, they are talking about the free price system where prices are determined by supply and demand. The Movement is simply criticizing it. Working Poor 19:05, 2 November 2006 (UTC)