I would like to second @Sebastian_L’s reply. In addition, our simulation modeling project (a distinct project, not formally linked to IDA) is trying to address this issue in a cybernetic manner. We are currently exploring a notion of an overall social budget of work hours that usually adjusts itself according to supply and demand signals arising from production and consumption. Similarly, we can structure in-kind accounting as a mostly-automatically-controlled allocation of a global budget. The initial global budget is subject to a political process, but can also organize itself based upon known external constraints, such as the known availability of various scarce inputs and established limits on undesiirable side-effects such as CO2 emissions.