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Job Offer at Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig, Germany
Read more: Job Offer at Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig, GermanyAt the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig we offer a position for a dedicated scientist to join the team as soon as possible to work on a research project. The project will develop and apply innovative sustainability assessment methods to explore the socio-ecological transformation of regions undergoing structural change. For this, we…
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Recording of INDEP online Presentation by the IDA uploaded to YouTube
Read more: Recording of INDEP online Presentation by the IDA uploaded to YouTubeThe recording of the INDEP online event with the IDA on their labour time accounting app has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can find the video via this link or watch it below.
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Tim Platenkamp proposes a new model of democratic economic planning
Read more: Tim Platenkamp proposes a new model of democratic economic planningTim Plantenkamp, a trade unionist, just published a book The Constitution of Socialism: A World without Capital, at Brill. The book is divided into two main sections: Diagnosis and Remedy. In the first, Plantenkamp reviews theoretical models and practical experiments of socialism. In the second, he proposes how a Socialist Republic could function. For the…
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Paper on Green Financial Planning citing DEP proponents in Journal “New Political Economy”
Read more: Paper on Green Financial Planning citing DEP proponents in Journal “New Political Economy”A new paper by James Jackson and Mathias Larsen titled “Green financial planning: a state-capital relationship meta-governed through the Paris agreement” has been published in the journal “New Political Economy“, the most important journal on political economy. In it they cite recent publications by Christoph Sorg and Jan Groos, both proponents of and researchers on…
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Article pleading for Democratic Economic Planning in big German leftist Newspaper
Read more: Article pleading for Democratic Economic Planning in big German leftist NewspaperRecently an article pleading for the wieder left (from parties to the extra-parlamentary left) to pay attention to and participate in the revived debate around democratic economic planning has appeared in the big German leftist newspaper nd. The article is an abbreviated version of the opening article that has appeared in 2024 in an issue…
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Panel on the Historical Subject of Planning at the Paris Historical Materialism Conference
Read more: Panel on the Historical Subject of Planning at the Paris Historical Materialism ConferenceAt this year’s Historical Materialism conference in Paris there is going to be a panel with the title “Après la révolution – Quel sujet historique pour la planification? (After the revolution – What historical subject for planning?)”. The Panel will include the following talks: (- Pierre Caye – Planning in Contemporary Complex Systems– Paul Feltmann…
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Appeal to Members of the European Parliament to not intensify competitive Market Mechanisms in its Public Procurement
Read more: Appeal to Members of the European Parliament to not intensify competitive Market Mechanisms in its Public ProcurementThe European Union is on the brink of introducing sweeping changes to its public procurement rules, with the European Parliament’s Internal Market Committee (IMCO) set to vote on June 26 on a report that includes a controversial amendment—Article 13c. This proposal would significantly curb the ability of public authorities to award contracts to in-house or…
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“A Political Economy of Socialism” – Article by the IDA on the Planning Debate and Labour Time Calculation
Read more: “A Political Economy of Socialism” – Article by the IDA on the Planning Debate and Labour Time CalculationIn “A Political Economy of Socialism,” the IDA analyzes the debate of democratic planned economy in the light of labour time calculation. The article is behind a paywall and available in German.
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Recording of INDEP online Talk with Michael Hicks uploaded to YouTube
Read more: Recording of INDEP online Talk with Michael Hicks uploaded to YouTubeThe recording of the INDEP online talk with Michael Hicks on his new game “Dissent on Mars” and simulating postcapitalist economies has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can watch it via this link or below.
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Recording of INDEP Talk with Ellen D. Russell and Simon Tremblay-Pepin uploaded to YouTube
Read more: Recording of INDEP Talk with Ellen D. Russell and Simon Tremblay-Pepin uploaded to YouTubeThe recording of the INDEP online talk with Ellen D. Russell and Simon Tremblay-Pepin on Rethinking Expertise in Democratic Economic Planning has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can watch the video via this link or below.
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Ecology and negotiated coordination: a debate
Read more: Ecology and negotiated coordination: a debatePat Devine and Fikret Adaman recently reacted to an article published in 2022 by a group of authors called Planning for Entropy, who are members of the Democratic Economic Planning research group of the CRITS. The 2022 paper proposed linking models of democratic economic planning to approaches to social metabolism. It argued that the negotiated…
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Labor Time Accounting: A Postmortem – Robin Hahnel
Read more: Labor Time Accounting: A Postmortem – Robin HahnelIn an article published by the Participatory Economy Project, professor Robin Hahnel offers a critique of labor time accounting, arguing that there are three different categories of real costs which rational economic decision making should take into account, only one of which is the amount of labor time required to make different goods and services. Excerpt: Of relevance…
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