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Cooperation Jackson Livestream with Raphael Arar on Social Digital Commons and Democratic Economic Planning
Read more: Cooperation Jackson Livestream with Raphael Arar on Social Digital Commons and Democratic Economic PlanningKali Akuno, Co-founder and Executive Director of Cooperation Jackson, a network of worker-coops in Jackson, Mississippi, has recently interviewed Raphael Arar in a livestream about Social Digital Commons and Democratic Economic Planning. The livestream was part of Cooperation Jackson’s #BuildAndFight Formula series, a multi-part edicational series. You can find other videos of the series on…
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A new Handbook on Degrowth mentions economic planning
Read more: A new Handbook on Degrowth mentions economic planningAnitra Nelson, activist-scholar affiliated with the Informal Urbanism Research Hub (InfUr-) at University of Melbourne, Australia, recently edited the Routledge Handbook of Degrowth. This collective work comprises 35 chapters, covering both theoretical issues and case studies. Even if the question of planning is not the central issue of this handbook, it is mentioned in several…
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Two chapters on democratic economic planning by Martín Arboleda newly translated
Read more: Two chapters on democratic economic planning by Martín Arboleda newly translatedTwo chapters of the book Gobernar la utopía. Sobre planificación y el poder popular by Martín Arboleda, associate professor of the School of Sociology and Director of the Social Transformations Laboratory at Universidad Diego Portales in Chile, have recently been translated. Alexandra Alván and Rodrigo Ferradas have posted on the website Critical Theory Under Pressure:…
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Two new Podcast Episodes with Paul S. Adler
Read more: Two new Podcast Episodes with Paul S. AdlerThe From Alpha to Omega Podcast has recently released a two part interview with Paul S. Adler. The first episode centers on Adler’s 1990 paper “Marx, Machines, and Skill” and the question if capitalism deskills workers. The second episode focuses on Adler’s 2019 book “The 99 Percent Economy. How Democratic Socialism Can Overcome the Crises…
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The Participatory Economy model and the shortcomings of economic models
Read more: The Participatory Economy model and the shortcomings of economic modelsAn article by Anders Sandström from the Participatory Economy Project arguing for the need to bridge the sometimes considerable gaps between our preferred abstract economic models and the reality of a real-world modern complex economy. People certainly have a right to be sceptical of non-capitalist alternative economic visions and models in light of twentieth-century history.…
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Call for Papers: Special Issue of Emancipations on Economic Planning
Read more: Call for Papers: Special Issue of Emancipations on Economic PlanningEmancipations, a four-year-old academic journal of critical social analysis published by Mississippi State University with an editorial board composed of prestigious scholars in the critical social sciences, has launched a call for papers for a special issue on Economic Planning. Larry Alan Busk, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Florida Gulf Coast University and…
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Tomas Härdin responds to Robin Hahnel on Labor Time Accounting
Read more: Tomas Härdin responds to Robin Hahnel on Labor Time AccountingOne thing that I believe Hahnel is trying to say is that disaggregation of labour power for the purposes of planning has not been sufficiently theorized. On this I agree. Cockshott has argued that planning must be carried out in as disaggregated a manner as possible. But unless I’ve missed something, Cockshott still talks only…
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Aaron Benanav proposes a multi-criterial socialist economy in New Left Review
Read more: Aaron Benanav proposes a multi-criterial socialist economy in New Left ReviewAaron Benanav, a professor at Cornell University, just published the article Beyond Capitalism—1 in issue 153 of the New Left Review. The article critically evaluates visions of socialism, the Soviet Union, the socialist calculation debate, and Keynesian social democracy in order to develop the theoretical foundations of a multi-criterial socialist economy. This is the first…
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Tony Smith’s new Book “A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century” published
Read more: Tony Smith’s new Book “A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century” publishedMarxist theorist Tony Smith just published the book A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century Towards the ‘Full and Free Development of Every Individual’, at Brill. After outlining a Marxist critique of capitalism, the rest of the book outlines a proposal for a 21st century republican socialism, with it extensively discussing its political institutions as well…
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New Video on the Failure of Historical Socialism
Read more: New Video on the Failure of Historical SocialismSimon Sutterlütti has recently published a video analysing the failure of historical socialism. His fundamental critique is that it failed because it was still based on wage-labor and good were not distributed based on need. He concludes by making a case for a model tha avoids this mistake, called “Commonism” (for a short breakdown, see…
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Article about Legal Evaluation on the Socialization of the Energy Sector in German Newspaper
Read more: Article about Legal Evaluation on the Socialization of the Energy Sector in German NewspaperThe German newspaper taz has published an article reporting on the recently published legal evaluation on the possibility of socializing the energy sector. The legal evalutation was commissioned by the think tank communia and was recently presented to the public at an event. For more info, click here.
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Wirtschaftsdemokratie.jetzt now also available in English
Read more: Wirtschaftsdemokratie.jetzt now also available in EnglishThe website “Wirtschaftsdemokratie.jetzt” (“Economic and organisational democracy”), which contains diverse materials on economic and organisational democracy on the macro-, meso- and microscale, is now also available in English. To switch the language, just go to the right corner of the top menu and select the language on the drop down menu. We also indicated the…
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