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Documentation for Raphael Arar’s Exhibition ‘Planning’ uploaded
Read more: Documentation for Raphael Arar’s Exhibition ‘Planning’ uploadedRaphael Arar has uploaded photo- and videodocumentation of the artworks included in his exhibition ‘Planning’, which was taking place at Carnation Contemporary in Portland, Oregon late last year. The documentation also includes textcommentary for most artworks. Below is a list of the individual documentation pages: For further documentation of Raphael’s art see here.
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Paper Argues for Synthesis of Ronald Coase’s and Marx’s Economic Theory To Analyse Socialist Planning
Read more: Paper Argues for Synthesis of Ronald Coase’s and Marx’s Economic Theory To Analyse Socialist PlanningIn this paper, independent Jim Farmelant argues that the views of economist Ronald Coase of his youth when he was a socialist and his early economic writings, when combined with Marxian economics, can provide new insights when applied to contemporary debates on socialist planning. A summary of the paper can be found below: Ronald Coase…
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Podcast Episode with Grace Blakeley and Clara Mattei on Economic Planning and Capitalism
Read more: Podcast Episode with Grace Blakeley and Clara Mattei on Economic Planning and CapitalismRecently an episode of the FREE (Forum for Real Economic Emancipation) Podcast has been released, in which Grace Blakeley is interviewed by Clara Mattei. In the episode they touch (amongst other topics) upon the question of economic planning in capitalism today and how a genuinely democratic form of ecnomic planning could look like and where…
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Article Details The History Behind ‘The Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution’
Read more: Article Details The History Behind ‘The Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution’In this recent article Hermann Lueer, situates the book ‘The Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution‘, which was written by German council communist Jan Appel in order to outline how a communist mode of production would be organised, in its historical context. A summary of the article can be found below: “One hundred years…
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Richard Westra’s Book on Eco-Socialist Democratic Economic Planning Has Been Published
Read more: Richard Westra’s Book on Eco-Socialist Democratic Economic Planning Has Been PublishedRichard Westra, a Professor at the University of Opole, published in August 2025 the book “Political Economy of Eco-sustainable Alternatives Progressive and Equitable Futures” as part of the book series “Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy“. In the book, Westra critically evaluates eco-socialist literature in order to outline the foundations of a feasible form of eco-socialist…
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Call for Papers and Activists Proposals: Capitalism Moving Beyond Neoliberalism – Crises, Changes, and What Comes Next
Read more: Call for Papers and Activists Proposals: Capitalism Moving Beyond Neoliberalism – Crises, Changes, and What Comes NextThe International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE) is organizing its 16th international conference, to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, from Wednesday, 9 September, to Saturday, 12 September 2026. Their call for papers and activist proposals is large and includes many sub-working groups with their own mini calls for papers. The submission deadline is February…
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Call for Papers for Workshop on Postcapitalism in Pisa, Italy
Read more: Call for Papers for Workshop on Postcapitalism in Pisa, ItalyThe States and Markets Working Group of the Young Scholars Initiative, which is an initiative of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, is organising a workshop at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa from 12th-13th March 2026 that will discuss critiques of contemporary, postcapitalist visions and strategies to realise such visions. The deadline for…
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Interview with Jan Groos on German Public Radio on Utopian Futures and Democratic Economic Planning
Read more: Interview with Jan Groos on German Public Radio on Utopian Futures and Democratic Economic PlanningThe german public broadcasting radio Deutschlandfunk Kultur recently published an interview with Jan Groos as part of their podcast series ‘Sein und Streit‘. In the interview the questions of the imagination of better futures, utopias and different models of democratic economic planning as examples of those were discussed. You can listen to the interview here…
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New Newspaper Article about Aaron Benanav’s Proposal for a multi-criterial Socialist Economy
Read more: New Newspaper Article about Aaron Benanav’s Proposal for a multi-criterial Socialist EconomyIn this new article in the german newspaper ‘nd,’ Raul Zelik writes about Aaron Benanav‘s recent proposal for a multi-criterial socialist economy and its theoretical foundations and institutional details. You can read the article here (in German). You can read Aaron Benanav’s two papers outlining his proposal for a multi-criterial socialist economy here and here.
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Second part of From Alpha To Omega podcast two-parter discusses relationship between socialism and self-determination theory
Read more: Second part of From Alpha To Omega podcast two-parter discusses relationship between socialism and self-determination theoryIn this new episode of the From Alpha To Omega podcast, host Tom O’Brien interviews Ferdia O’Driscoll, one of the co-founders of the International Network for Democratic Economic Planning and the creator of the Bright Age Beyond website and Youtube channel, about what self-determination theory is and why it matters for socialism. This is the…
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This Machine Kills Podcast Interview with Aaron Benanav on his multi-criterial socialism proposal – Part 1
Read more: This Machine Kills Podcast Interview with Aaron Benanav on his multi-criterial socialism proposal – Part 1In this new episode of the This Machine Kills podcast, co-hosts Jathan Sadowski and Edward Ongweso Jr. interview Aaron Benanav about the theoretical foundations of his proposal for a multi-criterial socialist economy. This is the first episode of a two-parter on the topic. A summary can be found below: We’re joined by Aaron Benanav to…
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New article argues for integrating post-growth economics and democratic economic planning into transformative adaptation initiatives
Read more: New article argues for integrating post-growth economics and democratic economic planning into transformative adaptation initiativesIn this article for the journal Ecological Economics, Oussama Chaabouni of the University of Girona and Richard Bärnthaler of the University of Leeds review the literature on transformative adaptation and argue that it falls short of its transformative aims, with them also arguing that integrating both post-growth economics and democratic economic planning into transformative adaptation…
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