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A presentation of the MDIC model in relationship to cuba’s socialism
Read more: A presentation of the MDIC model in relationship to cuba’s socialismDavid Laibman just published in Science & Society (a Marxist journal he edits) a new presentation of Multilevel Democratic Iterative Coordination (MDIC) (a model he developed) entitled Cuba’s Socialism: Is There a Path Beyond Crisis? A Reflection on Science & Society’s Special Issue, “The Cuban Revolution at 65”. The article is behind a paywall and gives…
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A new book on “The Future of Revolution” includes some elements on economic planning
Read more: A new book on “The Future of Revolution” includes some elements on economic planningJasper Bernes, a professor in the English Department at UCLA, just published a book entitled The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising at Verso. The book aims to explore how a communist society can be created through a social revolution in the 21st century. As part of…
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A modest proposal for a transition to a moneyless economy
Read more: A modest proposal for a transition to a moneyless economyEmil Jacob published on his blog (usually centered on promoting the use of nuclear energy from a communist perspective) a post on how we could reach a moneyless economy in three steps. He starts from a few co-ops organized inside a capitalist society and shows how they could impel a transition towards a planned economy.…
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A new podcast episode about the Vanguard Method and socialist economics
Read more: A new podcast episode about the Vanguard Method and socialist economicsRoger Avelado was interviewed by Tom O’Brien at his From Alpha to Omega podcast about the Vanguard Method. The Vanguard Method is an adaptation of the Toyota Production System (TPS) for the service sector. It proposes moving from a command-and-control approach to one based on systems thinking. Roger Avelado admires the Vanguard Method and argues…
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Recording of INDEP Talk with Matt Vidal uploaded to YouTube
Read more: Recording of INDEP Talk with Matt Vidal uploaded to YouTubeThe recording of the INDEP online Talk with Matt Vidal on Lean Production, Worker Control, and Socialist Efficiency in the Age of Climate Crisis, which was held on the 5th of March, has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can find the video below or via this link.
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A new article on the role of experts in postcapitalism
Read more: A new article on the role of experts in postcapitalismEllen D. Russell and Simon Tremblay-Pepin just published an article entitled Economic Expertise in Postcapitalist Democratic Economic Planning in the journal Critical Sociology. This article aims to address the lack of attention paid to the question of expertise in the work surrounding postcapitalism. It is only accessible behind a paywall, but a green open-access version…
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A book on socialist economic systems now available in paperback
Read more: A book on socialist economic systems now available in paperbackThe book “Socialist Economic Systems” by Steven Rosefielde is now available in paperback from Routledge. The book offers very short and readable comments on 22 socialist economic systems. Here’s an excerpt of the back cover: The book opens by surveying pre-industrial utopias from Plato to Thomas More, and libertarian communal designs for superior living. It plumbs all aspects…
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IDA’s Criticism of Cockshott and Cottrell’s “Cybersocialism” translated into Chinese
Read more: IDA’s Criticism of Cockshott and Cottrell’s “Cybersocialism” translated into ChineseNew Chinese translation of IDA’s critique of Cybersocialism by Cockshott and Cottrell.
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Podcast with Jess Thorne on Worker’s Self-Management
Read more: Podcast with Jess Thorne on Worker’s Self-ManagementAn episode of the “Red Medicine” podcast with interview guest Jess Thorne has recently been released. The episode discusses the topic of worker’s self-management and is thematically close with a report on worker led innovation by Jess Thorne that was published earlier this year. Here’s the description of the podcast episode: “Jess Thorne returns to…
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New Blogpost on Computing Labour Values in a Planned Economy
Read more: New Blogpost on Computing Labour Values in a Planned EconomyGiovanni Paiela has recently published a post on his medium blog called “Computation of labour values in a socialist planned economy“. The post touches on the topics of planning and labour values in general, computing labour values, the problem of scale in this context and compares approximate and exact solution methods for this problem. You…
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New PhD Thesis on Democratic Public Ownership
Read more: New PhD Thesis on Democratic Public OwnershipThe PhD thesis of Thomas Matthew Hanna titled “Advancing the Concept of Democratic Public Ownership” has been published on the website of the University of Glasgow. Here’s the abstract of the thesis (highlighting done for this post): “This thesis examines and refines the concept of Democratic Public Ownership, which has emerged in both theory and…
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Newsletter by The New Institute about Kohei Saito’s work
Read more: Newsletter by The New Institute about Kohei Saito’s workThe New Institute has recently published a newsletter giving an overview of Kohei Saito’s work and providing some insights into Saito’s project there, where he chairs the program “Beyond Capitalism: War Economy and Economic Planning.” To quote from the newsletter: “If we want to avoid destroying the planet, he says, we must gear up for…
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