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Recording of Talk by Tom O’Brien on Variety and Planning Uploaded
Read more: Recording of Talk by Tom O’Brien on Variety and Planning UploadedThe recording of our recent online Talk with Tom O’Brien on Variety and Planning has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can watch it here or below.
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General Intellect Unit Podcast Returns With Episode On Aaron Benanav’s Beyond Capitalism—I Essay
Read more: General Intellect Unit Podcast Returns With Episode On Aaron Benanav’s Beyond Capitalism—I EssayThe podcast General Intellect Unit has ended its hiatus through releasing an episode where host Kyle Thompson and our very own James Macumber discuss the essay “Beyond Capitalism—I” by Aaron Benanav that was published in New Left Review, which outlines the theoretical foundations of Benanav’s proposal for a multi-criterial socialism. A summary of the podcast…
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Cosmonaut Article On Understanding Health Care Economies To Inform Planning Debates
Read more: Cosmonaut Article On Understanding Health Care Economies To Inform Planning DebatesIshaan Shah writes in English for Cosmonaut Magazine about the dynamics of health care economies in relation to debates about democratic economic planning. Feel free to reach out to the author at planning4health@protonmail.com A summary of the article can be found below: Addressing the degraded conditions of the modern healthcare industry, Ishaan Shah urges partisans…
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Podcast Episode on Che Guevara’s Views on Planning and the Cuban ‘Great Debate’
Read more: Podcast Episode on Che Guevara’s Views on Planning and the Cuban ‘Great Debate’Radio Arbetarbildning, a Swedish documentary podcast produced by an independent Marxist workers’ educational association, has published a short episode about Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara’s views on socialist economics, and about the Cuban ‘Great Debate’ which took place during the early years of the Cuban revolution. The podcast is in Swedish and can be heard here.
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IDA Publishes Response To Aníbal’s Criticism Of IDA’s Labour-Time Economy Proposal
Read more: IDA Publishes Response To Aníbal’s Criticism Of IDA’s Labour-Time Economy ProposalOn the website INTER-REV, Spanish council communist Aníbal critiqued the article by IDA (Initiative Demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung/Initiative for Democratic Labour-Time Accounting) entitled Syndicalism and Labour-Time Accounting. In response, IDA has published an article by Brazilian communist Rafael Vertamatti that defends IDA’s labour-time economy proposal from Aníbal’s criticisms. A summary of the article can be found below:…
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Paper By David Zachariah And Tomas Härdin Outlines Eco-Socialist Planning Proposal
Read more: Paper By David Zachariah And Tomas Härdin Outlines Eco-Socialist Planning ProposalTomas Härdin and David Zachariah have published a paper proposing a form for socialist planning that has been specifically designed to respond to the social, economic, political and ecological issues that have been created by capitalist-caused climate change. A summary of the paper can be found below: The case for socialism is often laid out…
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New Book Has Chapter On Post-Growth Planning
Read more: New Book Has Chapter On Post-Growth PlanningEarlier this year, the UPF Barcelona School of Management published the book Embracing Post-Growth: Sustainable Paths Beyond Conventional Economic Approaches, edited by Oriol Amat and Marcos Eguiguren. In the book, there is Chapter 5: Planning for Post-Growth, where Cornel Ban of the Copenhagen Business School, Jacob Hasselbalch of the Copenhagen Business School and Matthias Kranke…
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First Webinar of “Reviving Central Planning – A Global South Perspective” Series uploaded
Read more: First Webinar of “Reviving Central Planning – A Global South Perspective” Series uploadedThe first webinar of the “Reviving Central Planning – A Global South Perspective” series, hosted by the International Development Economics Associates Limited (IDEAs), has been uploaded to their YouTube channel. It is titled “Why revisit national planning?” and featured C. P. Chandrasekhar and Prabhat Patnaik as panelists and was moderated by Farwa Sial. You can…
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Working Paper on Democratization of Investment Published
Read more: Working Paper on Democratization of Investment PublishedGabriel Kahan and Daniel Seel have published a paper in the working paper series by Laboratoire interdisciplinaire d’évaluation des politiques publiques (LIEPP), which is hosted at Sciences Po in Paris. You can find the abstract below: “A growing number of social scientists call for financial democracy as a “non-reformist reform,” yet scholarship still relies on…
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Stefan Meretz Responds to Herman Lueer’s Critique of Commonism
Read more: Stefan Meretz Responds to Herman Lueer’s Critique of CommonismA couple of months ago Herman Lueer published a critical review of Stefan Meretz’ and Simon Sutterlütti’s book “Kapitalismus Aufheben” (the English version “Make Capitalism History” can be found here). In the review he is very critical of fundamental aspects of the core idea of the book, the decentralized model of democratic economic planning “Commonism”…
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Discussion About Tony Smith’s “A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century”
Read more: Discussion About Tony Smith’s “A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century”A discussion has been sparked by Herman Lueer’s review of Tony Smith’s “A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century”. The discussion revolves around questions of the what it means to abolish wage labor, labor-time accounting, socialist planning, and the economic foundations of an association of free and equal producers. You can find the full discussion in…
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Democratic Economic Planning Discussed At SASE 2026 Conference
Read more: Democratic Economic Planning Discussed At SASE 2026 ConferenceThe 38th Annual Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics/SASE Conference was held from Monday 22nd June to Wednesday 24th June virtually and from Wednesday 1st July to Saturday 4th July in Bordeaux. At the conference, there were multiple panels, sessions and events that discussed the theory and practice of democratic economic planning, which demonstrates how…
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