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Study on deregulation and public-private partnerships of public energy utilities by “The Climate and Community Project” calls for democratic planning and ownership of electricity infrastructure
Read more: Study on deregulation and public-private partnerships of public energy utilities by “The Climate and Community Project” calls for democratic planning and ownership of electricity infrastructureThe Climate and Community Project recently released a study in which they evaluate the patterns of deregulation and public-private partnerships of public energy utilities in South Africa, the UK, Uruguay, France and Nebraska. While all of these different context have their own history and nuances, they found that this shared pattern and the widespread adoption…
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A recent article offers new attacks on the Austrian victory claim in the socialist calculation debate
Read more: A recent article offers new attacks on the Austrian victory claim in the socialist calculation debateAn open-access article in English by Jan Philipp Dapprich and Dan Greenwood, published in the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, proposes a new cybersocialist approach to the socialist calculation debates. In this paper entitled Cybersocialism and the Future of the Socialist Calculation Debate, Dapprich and Greenwood review the limits of Austrian arguments when interacting…
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Open Call for Contributions to”IMPACT 2024 Powers of Practices – Scenarios of the Commons” (6th-10th November) – Deadline 25th September
Read more: Open Call for Contributions to”IMPACT 2024 Powers of Practices – Scenarios of the Commons” (6th-10th November) – Deadline 25th SeptemberApplications for IMPACT 2024, a transdisciplinary symposium hosted by PACT Zollverein in Essen, Germany, are now open. The Symposium will take place in person from the 6th to the 10th November, deadline for the call is the 25th September. The Symposium includes renumeration of 250€, accomodation and covering of the travel costs. You can apply…
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Program “Beyond Capitalism: War Economy and Democratic Planning” starting at “The New Institute” this September
Read more: Program “Beyond Capitalism: War Economy and Democratic Planning” starting at “The New Institute” this SeptemberThis September the Fellowship program “Beyond Capitalism: War Economy and Democratic Planning” will be start to be hosted by The New Institute, a think tank based in Hamburg, Germany. The program will be chaired by Kohei Saito and will last until June 2025. The fellows are Aaron Benanav, Troy Vettese, Cédric Durand, Matthias Schmelzer, Tatjana…
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Interview with Eric Meier and Simon Hannah on AntiCapitalist Radio about Democratic Planning and Utopian Aesthetics
Read more: Interview with Eric Meier and Simon Hannah on AntiCapitalist Radio about Democratic Planning and Utopian AestheticsA podcast interview with Eric Meier and Simon Hannah has recently been released. Simon is the host of the AntiCapitalist Radio podcast, which is hosted by the UK based organisation Anticapitalist Resistance. and talked with Eric about Democratic Socialist Planning and Radical Utopian Aesthetics. Both are members of INDEP and Simon is the author of…
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Planning for Degrowth – How artificial intelligence and big data revitalize the debate on democratic economic planning
Read more: Planning for Degrowth – How artificial intelligence and big data revitalize the debate on democratic economic planningThe Institute for International Political Economy Berlin has published a working paper on degrowth and democratic economic planning by Leo Schlichter entitled “Planning for Degrowth – How artificial intelligence and Big Data revitalize the debate on democratic economic planning”. Here is the abstract: The Degrowth movement advocates a radical shift from our capitalist economic system…
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Envisioning Socialist Futures: Planning the Economy – 1Dime Radio Podcast
Read more: Envisioning Socialist Futures: Planning the Economy – 1Dime Radio PodcastIn a new episode of the 1Dime Radio podcast, Tony Chamas interviews Ferdia O’Driscoll about postcapitalism, a wide-ranging discussion which surveys the justification for exploring the details of a postcapitalist society and explores fundamental questions of postcapitalist political economy (as well as advertising INDEP). You can watch the episode on the 1Dime Radio YouTube channel…
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Explaining Communal Income and Why it is Essential to Socialism
Read more: Explaining Communal Income and Why it is Essential to SocialismFerdia O’Driscoll has written an article published on the Participatory Economy Project website on the governance and allocation of income in socialism entitled “Explaining Communal Income and Why it is Essential to Socialism”. Here is an excerpt from the introduction: Communal Income refers to the governance and accounting of income received by individuals for formal…
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3rd yearly Networking Conference of the German “Network Democratic Economic Planning” taking place 23rd – 24th November in Berlin
Read more: 3rd yearly Networking Conference of the German “Network Democratic Economic Planning” taking place 23rd – 24th November in BerlinThis year’s Networking Conference of the German “Network Democratic Economic Planning” is scheduled for the 23rd and 24th November in Berlin. It’s the third of its kind and this years focus theme will be “Planning and Reproduction”. The conference will be entirely in German, translation options are not going to be available. If you are…
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Panel on Planning and the Environment at “Can Democracy Survive the Climate Crisis?” consists entirely of INDEP members
Read more: Panel on Planning and the Environment at “Can Democracy Survive the Climate Crisis?” consists entirely of INDEP membersThe Panel on Democratic Planning and the Environment at the London-based conference “Can Democracy Survive the Climate Crisis?” will consist entirely of INDEP members. The conference will take place on the 5th and 6th September, for more info check its eventbrite page. Here are the presenters and their talks of the respective panel: Dougie Booth…
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INDEP shoutout in recent german episode of the Future Histories Podcast
Read more: INDEP shoutout in recent german episode of the Future Histories PodcastIn a recent german episode of the Future Histories podcast the host Jan Groos gave INDEP a shoutout. The episode itself featured an interview with Klaus Dörre on utopia, sustainability and why we still need a Left for the 21st century. You can find the episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Youtube, among other podcast…
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Article on Degrowth and Planning by Elena Hofferberth and Matthias Schmelzer in the german Jacobin Magazine
Read more: Article on Degrowth and Planning by Elena Hofferberth and Matthias Schmelzer in the german Jacobin MagazineRecently an original german speaking article dealing with the emergent overlap of the Degrowth and Planning discourse has been published in the german edition of the Jacobin magazine. It highlights the implicit reliance of large parts of the Degrowth discourse on some form of economic planning in order to achieve its proposed reduction of resource…
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