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Deepening the degrowth planning debate: division of labor, complexity, and the roles of markets and digital tools
Read more: Deepening the degrowth planning debate: division of labor, complexity, and the roles of markets and digital toolsThe journal Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy just published an article in English by Max Koch, professor at Lund University’s School of Social Work, entitled: Deepening the degrowth planning debate: division of labor, complexity, and the roles of markets and digital tools. The article is in open access and part of a special issue on…
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Democratic Economic Planning discussed at the Summer University of the European Left
Read more: Democratic Economic Planning discussed at the Summer University of the European LeftAt this year’s Summer University of the European Left the topic of Democratic Economic Planning has been discussed on multiple occasions. A dedicated workshop on that topic was held and on a panel Sira Rego, the Minister of Youth and Children of the national Government of Spain called for a “planned transition” instead of simply…
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A new book about control over our ways of life as an alternative to market and planning
Read more: A new book about control over our ways of life as an alternative to market and planningA new book by Fabrice Flipo, who teaches at Institut Mines-Télécom, is now available online. The book, written in French, is entitled Changing our Ways of Life (Changer les modes de vie) and published at éditions du croquant. Here’s a translation of the summary: The market is to blame for the ecological crisis and the…
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A debate about the nature of Soviet planning on Cibcom
Read more: A debate about the nature of Soviet planning on CibcomCibcom has published an op-ed signed by Krasni Soldat that debates the translated version of Max Grünberg’s article published in Competition and Change. According to the author, following a thread he published on X to criticize Grünberg’s article, the editors at Cibcom asked him to turn his disagreement into an article. The op-ed, written in…
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Call for Submissions: Handbook on Postcapitalist Political Economy
Read more: Call for Submissions: Handbook on Postcapitalist Political EconomyPlanning for Entropy, a research group member of the Research Center on Social Innovation and Transformation (CRITS), has launched a call for submissions for a Handbook on Postcapitalist Political Economy. Edward Elgar will publish this Handbook. It aims to assemble the most prominent concrete experiences and theoretical models in postcapitalist political economy in one volume.…
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Reclaiming the Future – Forthcoming book on socialist planning
Read more: Reclaiming the Future – Forthcoming book on socialist planningNew book coming out on socialist planning
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We’ve launched!
Read more: We’ve launched!Hello and welcome to INDEP – the International Network for Democratic Economic Planning. INDEP launched in July 2024 with the purpose to bring together individuals and organisations from around the world who are working to advance democratic economic planning as the basis of a post-capitalist economic system. We share a vision for an economy in…
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