Original sentence: " For example, Hahnel argues that "the first problem with Milton Friedman's way of conceptualizing the notion that people should control their own economic lives is that it merely begs the question and defers all problems to an unspecified property rights system."if only the residents of ward 2 of Washington, D.But if the federation representing the residents of all wards of Washington, D.For example, an individual who is the only one using a desk at work should have virtually complete control over the organization of his or her desk so long as such organization does not have significant adverse effects on others.In parecon, it constitutes a replacement for the mainstream economic conception of economic freedom, which the authors have argued is an inadequate and misleading concept, incapable of providing useful guidance for situations where people's freedoms conflict.In the "ABC's of Political Economy" and "Economic Justice and Democracy", Hahnel offered critiques of the mainstream concept as formulated by Milton Friedman in "Capitalism and Freedom.Robin Hahnel explained the principle using the example of pollution,.The interests of future generations must be protected in the long-run participatory process and by an active environmental movement.The same logic implies that in more socially interactive contexts, decision-making power would be relatively more dispersed and inclusive, distributed in proportion to the degree which actors are impacted by decisions.They argue its very vagueness has allowed it to be abused by capitalist ideologues.While this is the case for some pollutants, it is often the case that future generations bear a great cost of pollution today.[…] The second problem is that while Friedman and other champions of capitalism wax poetic on the subject of economic freedom, they have remarkably little to say about what is a better or worse property rights system.[…] What is entirely lacking is any attempt to develop criteria for better and worse distributions of property rights.decides that a pollutant in ward 2 affects the residents of all wards, then the entire city of Washington is the relevant region […] However, the above procedure in the annual planning process protects the environment sufficiently only if present residents in the region of impact are the only ones who suffer adverse consequences.feel they are adversely affected by a pollutant released in ward 2, then ward 2 is the relevant region
Edited sentence: In parecon, it constitutes a replacement for the economic concept of economic freedom.The authors argue its very vagueness has allowed it to be abused by capitalist ideologues