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Anarchist organization “Perspective Self-Management” has included labor time accounting in its program
Read more: Anarchist organization “Perspective Self-Management” has included labor time accounting in its programThe anarchist group “Perspektive Selbstverwaltung” proposes labor time accounting as a transitional step to abolish wage labor and money, valuing all work equally. INDEP member IDA supports this but suggests recording labor time long-term for societal oversight without linking it to consumption.
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A defense of a modular approach to democratic economic planning
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in ArticlesRead more: A defense of a modular approach to democratic economic planningSimon Tremblay-Pepin, a professor at the Elisabeth-Bruyère School of Social Innovation at Saint-Paul University and researcher in the research group on democratic planning of the CRITS, published a new logbook […]
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Call for proposals – Imagining and creating other possible worlds: engaged arts, emergencies, utopias
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Read more: Call for proposals – Imagining and creating other possible worlds: engaged arts, emergencies, utopiasThe CRITS, a research center on social innovation and transformation and one of INDEP’s partner organizations, is announcing a colloquium in Ottawa on November 6-7, 2025. The title is “Imagining […]
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John O’Neill Keynote Speaker at this Year’s LSE Graduate Conference in Political Theory
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Read more: John O’Neill Keynote Speaker at this Year’s LSE Graduate Conference in Political TheoryAt this year’s Graduate Conference in Political Theory of the LSE Department of Government John O’Neill of the University of Manchester will be giving a keynote. O’Neill is a well […]
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New Journal Special Issue on Democratic Economic Planning
Read more: New Journal Special Issue on Democratic Economic PlanningRecently a special issue on Democratic Economic Planning has been published by the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics. Here is a list of the included papers, which are all […]
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Cybernetic Economic Planning included as topic in Call for Papers for a Conference by the European Culture and Technology Laboratory
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Read more: Cybernetic Economic Planning included as topic in Call for Papers for a Conference by the European Culture and Technology LaboratoryThe European Culture and Technology Laboratory (ECT Lab+) is organizing a conference on “Knowledge in the Age of Digital Re-/Production: Responsible Epistemologies?” on the 4th and 5th June in Darmstadt, […]
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INDEP online event with Simon Hannah postponed
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in NewsRead more: INDEP online event with Simon Hannah postponedWe are sorry to inform you that today’s INDEP online event with Simon Hannah on his book “Reclaiming the Future. A Beginners Guide to Planning the Economy” has been postponed […]
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Democratic Planning included in question of Call for abstracts of the ISEE Degrowth conference 2025
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Read more: Democratic Planning included in question of Call for abstracts of the ISEE Degrowth conference 2025Democratic economic planning is included in a question of the call for abstracts of a session of this year’s ISEE Degrowth conference with the theme “Building socially just postgrowth futures […]
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Special issue “Rethinking Economic Planning” of “Competition & Change” Journal officially fully published
Read more: Special issue “Rethinking Economic Planning” of “Competition & Change” Journal officially fully publishedThe special issue “Rethinking Economic Planning” of the Journal “Competition & Change” has recently officially been published in full. This issue is edited by Christoph Sorg and Jan Groos. The […]
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Cecilia Rikap calling for democratic economic planning of AI and cloud infrastructure on “Tech Won’t Save Us” podcast
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in PodcastsRead more: Cecilia Rikap calling for democratic economic planning of AI and cloud infrastructure on “Tech Won’t Save Us” podcastIn a recent episode of the “Tech Won’t Save Us” Podcast, hosted by Paris Marx, Cecilia Rikap ended her interview with calling for the democratic economic planning of AI and […]
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Article in e-flux criticizing recent socialist and economic planning games
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in ArticlesRead more: Article in e-flux criticizing recent socialist and economic planning gamesRecently an article by Max Grünberg has been published in the art magazine e-flux Journal. The article critiques the widespread “negation of ludic violence”, the competitive dimension amongst players, in […]
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Interview with IDA on labor time calculation in publication of an association of laywers for democracy and human rights
Read more: Interview with IDA on labor time calculation in publication of an association of laywers for democracy and human rightsRecently the IDA (Initiative demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung) did an interview with the RAV (Republikanischer Anwältinnen- und Anwälteverein) on their model of labor time calculation. This interview has been published in the […]
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