Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. The basic actors in participatory planning are workers' and consumers' councils that allow ordinary citizens to make decisions about production in their workplaces and about their personal and neighborhood consumption. But besides neighborhood consumers' councils, we also have ward, city, county, state, and regional councils responsible for summing the proposals of lower levels and adding collective requests. And beside workplace councils, we have regional and industry council federations. To participate, each consumption actor proposes a plan for the upcoming period.
Individuals request private goods for the year.
Neighborhood or other collective consumption units sum personal requests and develop collective consumption requests as well. Similarly, each production actor proposes a plan for the upcoming period. Whether the actor is an individual, work group, workplace, or industry the proposal lists the inputs needed to complete the proposed activities and the outputs that will result. Of course, the collection of first proposals for consumption and production will not be equal, or in economist's jargon, first proposals will not comprise a feasible plan. The initial demand for most goods will exceed proposed supply.