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Interview with INDEP Co-Founder Eric Meier for the “World on the Brink” Podcast
Read more: Interview with INDEP Co-Founder Eric Meier for the “World on the Brink” PodcastRecently Hugo Pompougnac, president of the think tank Espaces Marx, has interview INDEP co-founder Eric Meier for the first episode of the podcast “World on the Brink”, which is hosted by Espaces Marx. In the interview they talked about INDEP itself, the involved partner organisations and members, the current state of the discourse on democratic…
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Interview with INDEP Co-Founders in Oikos Magazine
Read more: Interview with INDEP Co-Founders in Oikos MagazineSimon Tremblay-Pepin and Eric Meier, two of INDEP’s co-founders, were interviewed by INDEP member Michael Mietz for the Oikos magazine of the Brussels-based think tank of the same name. In the interview they discussed democratic economic planning, causes of its revival and their work with INDEP. The interview was conducted in English and translated to…
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1st Volume of German Translation of “Creative Construction” Book published
Read more: 1st Volume of German Translation of “Creative Construction” Book publishedRecently the German translation of the book “Creative Construction. Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond“, which was edited by Jan Groos and Christoph Sorg has been published by the publisher Brumaire. The German translation has been split into two volumes, the first of which is already published. The second one will be published…
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New Kohei Saito book published in Japanese and German
Read more: New Kohei Saito book published in Japanese and GermanKohei Saito‘s new book has been released in Japanese in April, titled “人新世の「黙示録」” (English: “The Apocalypse of the Anthropocene”), by the publisher Shueisha. You can find the Japanese version here. It has also been translated and published in German in June under the title “Am Ende des Fortschritts. Überleben in den Ruinen des Kapitalismus” (English:…
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LBO News Podcast Interviews Aaron Benanav About The Transition To Multi-Criterial Socialism
Read more: LBO News Podcast Interviews Aaron Benanav About The Transition To Multi-Criterial SocialismIn this episode of the LBO News podcast, Doug Henwood interviews Aaron Benanav about his report published by the Autonomy think-tank that outlines his proposed transition strategy to realise a multi-criterial socialist economy. You can listen to the interview here, while you can read Benanav’s report for Autonomy here.
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Aaron Benanav Interviewed By Flamman Magazine About Multi-Criterial Socialism
Read more: Aaron Benanav Interviewed By Flamman Magazine About Multi-Criterial SocialismFlamman/The Flame, a Swedish socialist weekly magazine, has interviewed Aaron Benanav about his proposal for a multi-criterial socialist economy that he published in New Left Review. You can read the interview (in Swedish) here, while you can read Benanav’s proposal for a multi-criterial socialist economy here, here and here.
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Future Histories Podcast Publishes Recording Of Creative Construction And The Struggle over Progress Event
Read more: Future Histories Podcast Publishes Recording Of Creative Construction And The Struggle over Progress EventThe Future Histories podcast has published a recording of the event Creative Construction and the Struggle over Progress that happened on Thursday 11th June from 7PM-9PM UTC+2 at the Thalia Theater. At the event, Kohei Saito, Christoph Sorg and Jan Groos discussed how democratic economic planning can be the solution to the social, economic and…
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Anibal Critiques Hermann Lueer And Fredo Corvo’s Articles On Wage Struggles And Labour-Time Accounting
Read more: Anibal Critiques Hermann Lueer And Fredo Corvo’s Articles On Wage Struggles And Labour-Time AccountingOn the website INTER-REV, Anibal has published a critique of two texts by Hermann Lueer and Fredo Corvo that discuss the relationship between wage struggles, abolishing wage labour and labour-time accounting in a communist society. You can read Anibal’s critique (in English and Spanish) here, while you can read Lueer and Corvo’s articles in English…
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Common Wealth Report Maps Out UK Green Planning Architecture
Read more: Common Wealth Report Maps Out UK Green Planning ArchitectureThe think-tank Common Wealth has published a report by Simone Gasperin that maps out the existing green planning institutions in Britain, outlines their issues and proposes new green planning institutions that would design and oversee the decarbonisation of Britain. You can read the report’s summary below: Green planning is emerging as the progressive policy paradigm…
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“Kurswechsel” Journal Issue on Democratic Economic Planning and Transformation
Read more: “Kurswechsel” Journal Issue on Democratic Economic Planning and Transformation“Kurswechsel” is the journal of the Advisory Council for Social, Economic, and Environmental Policy Alternatives (BEIGEWUM). It has been published since 1986 and features quarterly scholarly articles on a specific focus topic. Let’s Plan! Democratic Economic Planning—The Key to Transformation?Corporations like OMV, Spar, and Amazon are constantly planning—to maximize their profits. Owners and management decide…
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Brandon Torres’ Video Critiques Vivek Chibber’s Jacobin Article On Central Planning
Read more: Brandon Torres’ Video Critiques Vivek Chibber’s Jacobin Article On Central PlanningYouTuber Brandon Torres has released a video that critically evaluates an article by Vivek Chibber published in Jacobin that critiques central planning and argues for market socialism. In the video, Torres examines the economic history of the Soviet Union to outline the issues with Chibber’s argument and what lessons that Soviet Union has for attempts…
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Recording of Talk by Leone on Defining and Measuring Human Needs with Democratic Planning uploaded
Read more: Recording of Talk by Leone on Defining and Measuring Human Needs with Democratic Planning uploadedThe recording of our recent online Talk with Leone on defining and measuring human needs with democratic planning has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can watch it here or below.
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