The following is a detailed layout of the current working structure for the book. It is currently estimated to be 400 pages in length.

Part 1
We begin the book by describing the two main pillars upon which the entire analysis rests: Marx’s value theory and management cybernetics. This includes a detailed description of Marx’s analysis of capitalism, and examines how this informed Marx and Engels’ understanding of socialism. We also discuss the fundamentals of management cybernetic theory, and how they are applied in modern industrial production.

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Marx’s Analysis of Capital
Chapter 3: The Socialism of Marx and Engels
Chapter 4: Management Cybernetics
Chapter 5: Pull Production & the Toyota Production System

Part 2
In this section we examine the historical development of socialist economic theory and the role of the Socialist Calculation Debate. Using the insights gained from this debate and our investigation of value theory and cybernetics, we critique the various historical attempts at socialism in the 20th century and the most prominent modern proposals. Our analysis allows us to categorically reject these options as fundamentally non-viable conceptions of socialism.

Chapter 6: The Historical Development of Socialist Economic Theory
Chapter 7: Soviet Central planning
Chapter 8: Market Socialism
Chapter 9: Anarchism
Chapter 10: Cybersyn
Chapter 11: Parecon
Chapter 12: Modern Central Planning
Chapter 13: Communisation Theory

Part 3
This section describes our positive contribution to socialist economics, deduced from the cybernetic nature of reality and a scientific analysis of the social relations of production. These contributions follow as a matter of logical necessity, and describe the essential aspects of a viable communist economy. This analysis implies the a radical reappraisal of the nature of planning in socialism. The outcome of our analysis is a non-exploitative economy that is simple and intuitive to understand, in which workers self-organise their economic lives.

Chapter 14: Law of Association
Chapter 15: Labour in Socialism
Chapter 16: Pull Production
Chapter 17: Socialist Planning
Chapter 18: Organisational Structure
Chapter 19: Regulation of Production
Chapter 20: Conclusions