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| |name = Technocracy Incorporated | |||
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| '''Technocracy Incorporated''' is a non-profit ]-based organization that was mainly active in the 1930s.<ref>William E. Aikin (1977). ''Technocracy and the American Dream: The Technocracy Movement 1900-1941'', University of California Press.</ref> The organization advocates a new governmental system based on the metrics of energy.<ref>http://www.archive.org/details/TechnocracyHowardScott-ScienceVs.Chaos-June1933</ref> It argued that "price-system based" forms of government and economy are structurally incapable of effective action, and called for a more "rational and productive" type of society headed by technical experts.<ref name=bur>Beverly H. Burris (1993). State University of New York Press, p. 28.</ref> | |||
| ==History and origins== | |||
| {{see also|Technocracy}} | |||
| In the early half of the 20th century, a "reform" movement known as Technocracy briefly flared as a serious intellectual movement centered around ]. As a mass-movement, its center was California where it claimed half a million members in 1934. Technocracy is a hypothetical form of government in which scientists and technical experts administer govern and make decisions through technical and scientific knowledge. It is a form of ]. The term came to mean government by technical decision making in 1932.<ref>Oxford English Dictionary 3rd edition (Word from 2nd edition 1989)</ref><ref name=bur/><ref>William E. Aikin (1977). ''Technocracy and the American Dream: The Technocracy Movement 1900-1941'', University of California Press, p. 101.</ref> Technocracy counted among its admirers the novelist ], the author ] and the economist ]. | |||
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| Technocracy held that all politics and all economic arrangements based on the "Price System" (i.e., based on traditional economic theory) were antiquated and that engineers and other technology experts could run the country on engineering principles. Technocracy's rallying cry was "production for use," which was meant as a contrast to production for profit in the capitalist system. ], among others, affirmed his belief in "production for use" and the Technocrats briefly made common cause with Sinclair, and ], in California. However the technocrats were not of the political left, as they held every political and economic system, from the left to the right, to be unsound. The Technocracy movement survives, if not quite thrives, into the present day.<ref>http://www.ssa.gov/history/briefhistory3.html Social Security Online section on Technocracy Retrieval February 24 2011</ref> | |||
| Technocracy Incorporated was founded in 1933 by ], an engineer who had an interest in ]. Officials of the organization wore a uniform, consisting of a "well-tailored double-breasted suit, gray shirt, and blue necktie, with a monad insignia on the lapel", and its members saluted Scott in public.<ref name=bur/><ref>William E. Aikin (1977). ''Technocracy and the American Dream: The Technocracy Movement 1900-1941'', University of California Press, p. 101.</ref> | |||
| ==Goals== | |||
| The Technocracy Incorporated group describes itself as not being a ''political'' group and states in its official literature: | |||
| 'Literally, the word `Technocracy' means government by skill, as contrasted to government by opinion--whether it be an autocracy (government by one man's opinion), | |||
| an aristocracy (government by the opinions of an upper class), a plutocracy (government by the opinions of the wealthy), or a democracy (government by everybody's opinion).'<ref>http://ia700406.us.archive.org/22/items/WhoIsATechnocrat-WiltonIvie/Who_Is_A_Technocrat_Wilton_Ivie.pdf Retrieval Feb. 10 2011</ref> | |||
| Technocracy Incorporated advocated a form of living environment called "urbanates". Technocrats plan for urbanates to be something akin to resorts, designed to give each citizen the highest standard of living possible.<ref>Ivie, Wilton ''A Place to Live: 1955 Technocracy Digest</ref> | |||
| The group’s plan was to design a system of production and distribution(]) based for continental ] that would provide a better standard of living, while conserving non-renewable resources.<ref>http://surepost.com/igdtech/technocracy/pdf/THE_ENERGY_DISTRIBUTION_CARD.pdf</ref><ref name="bare_url"> Vol 64, No 922, 7 November 1974, p. 464. </ref> The ] was renamed Technocracy in 1930 and in 1932 its basic findings were published. In the winter of 1933, Technocracy was incorporated in New York State as a “nonsectarian, educational-research membership organization” <ref>''Technocracy Digest'', No. 231, pp 4 </ref><ref> Vol 26, No 4, Summer 2007, p. 6. ISSN 1199-5522</ref><ref name="bare_url" /> | |||
| ==Energy accounting== | |||
| At the core of Scott's vision was "an energy theory of value". Since the basic measure common to the production of all goods and services was energy, he reasoned "that the sole scientific foundation for the monetary system was also energy".<ref name=nye>David E. Nye (1992). pp. 343-344.</ref> | |||
| Energy Accounting is a hypothetical system of distribution, which would record the ] used to produce and distribute goods and services consumed by citizens in a Technate.<ref name="ecen.com">http://ecen.com/eee9/ecoterme.htm Economy and Thermodynamics</ref> The units of this accounting system would be known as Energy Certificates, or Energy Units. These would replace ] in a Technate.<ref>http://www.technocracy.org/transition/energy-distribution-card/118-energy-distribution-card</ref> | |||
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