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New German Podcast Episode on Degrowth and Democratic Economic Planning
Read more: New German Podcast Episode on Degrowth and Democratic Economic PlanningIn the new episode of the German left-wing “Dissens” Podcast, Matthias Schmelzer talks about the current strategic debates within the climate movement, Degrowth and democratic economic planning. This episode is part of a series on planning, called “Was ist der Plan?”. The previous two episodes in the series are with Christoph Sorg, introducing the topic…
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Recording of INDEP online Talk with Roger Arevalo uploaded
Read more: Recording of INDEP online Talk with Roger Arevalo uploadedThe recording of our recent INDEP online talk with Roger Arevalo has been uploaded to our YouTube channel. The recording can be found below or here.
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Talk on labour-time accounting by IDA with Mexican ruling party’s political education institute
Read more: Talk on labour-time accounting by IDA with Mexican ruling party’s political education instituteThe IDA (Initiative Democratic Labour-Time Accounting) recently did a talk with the Institute for Political Education of the Morena party that current leads the Mexican Government. In this talk, they presented the theory of labour-time accounting as well as the the labour-time accounting app that the IDA has developed in order to help cooperatives experiment…
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Behind the News podcast discusses democratic economic planning
Read more: Behind the News podcast discusses democratic economic planningIn this episode of the Behind the News podcast, host Doug Henwood interviews Aaron Benanav about his recent article for the New Left Review, where he outlines contemporary possibilities for a democratically planned economy. You can listen to the episode here.
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Article critically evaluates the book ‘The Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution’
Read more: Article critically evaluates the book ‘The Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution’In this article, the communist group AngryWorkers critically evaluate the merits and issues with the book ‘The Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution‘ with a focus on how it can inform efforts to construct a communist society through social revolution today. The book was published in 1930 by the council communist Group of International…
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Debunking Economics podcast discusses central planning
Read more: Debunking Economics podcast discusses central planningIn this episode of The Debunking Economics podcast, post-Keynesian economist Steve Keen and radio broadcaster Phil Dobbie discuss how governments can engage in central planning in a manner that ensures that resources are allocated effectively so that the rich aren’t favoured and the failures of the Soviet-type societies aren’t repeated. This episode is a sequel…
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Talk about “Anarcho-Syndicalist Economy” hosted by IDA uploaded
Read more: Talk about “Anarcho-Syndicalist Economy” hosted by IDA uploadedThe IDA (Initiative Democratic Labour-Time Accounting) has recently organized a talk with Helge Döhring from the german Institute for Syndicalist Research on the topic of anarcho-syndicalist economy. The talk (in German) can be found here or below:
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New German Wikipedia Entry for “Planned Economy”
Read more: New German Wikipedia Entry for “Planned Economy”There’s a new German Wikipedia entry on “Planned Economy”. Before, there was only a German entry on “Centrally Planned Economy“, which didn’t reflect the state of the discussion on economic planning today. The new entry touches on some of these new developments, but additions are of course welcome!
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New Article advocating for Synthesis of Pluralist Economics and Economic Planning Discourse
Read more: New Article advocating for Synthesis of Pluralist Economics and Economic Planning DiscourseRecently the educational platform on heterodox economics ‘Exploring Economics‘ has published an article called “Towards a New Economics of Collapse and Construction“. This article locates capitalism in our current historical conjuncture of economic crisis and ecological breakdown. It diagnoses the dominance of mainstream neoclassical economics in academic education and policymaking as an integral part of…
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Recording of INDEP online Retrospective on the First INDEP Conference uploaded
Read more: Recording of INDEP online Retrospective on the First INDEP Conference uploadedThe recording of the INDEP online retrospective event on our first conference has been uploaded to our YouTube channel. The recordings of the conference itself can be found here. You can find the video here or below.
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Talk on unifying socialism and cybernetics
Read more: Talk on unifying socialism and cyberneticsIn this talk for the Complex Anarchism Symposium, Tom O’Brien of the From Alpha to Omega podcast presents some research from the book The Classless Society in Motion: A New Theory of Socialist Economy that Tom is co-authoring with Donal Ó Coisdealbha that will be about socialist political economy and planning, where they unify the…
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Future Histories podcast discusses positive aesthetic visions of climate-futures and democratic economic planning
Read more: Future Histories podcast discusses positive aesthetic visions of climate-futures and democratic economic planningIn this episode of the Future Histories podcast, host Jan Groos interviews Anna Kornbluh, a Professor of English at University of Illinois Chicago. They talk about the prevalence of aesthetic immediacy and lack of vision in today’s cultural media and why we need positive pictures and narratives of the future, touching on both, climate-futures and…
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