The book Construire l’économie postcapialiste (Building a postcapitalist economy), written in French by Audrey Laurin-Lamothe, Frédéric Legault and Simon Tremblay-Pepin, has just been translated into Portuguese by the Brazilian publisher Lutas Anticapital. The translation is entitled Construir a economia pós-capitalista and is available in print on the publisher’s website.
The book presents the most well-known democratic economic planning models developed in the 1990s: negotiated coordination (Devine and Adaman), participatory economics (Albert and Hahnel), and computerized central planning (Cockshott and Cottrell). It also touches on the work of David Laibman, Takis Foutopoulos, Marta Harnecker and JK Gibson-Graham.
Here’s a translated excerpt from the publisher’s presentation of the book:
Moving beyond capitalism, certainly, but to where? What might a post-capitalist economy look like?
Given the scale of the ecological crisis and the lack of meaningful solutions from the political establishment, it is becoming urgent to answer these questions, which the left has avoided for far too long. According to the defenders of capitalism, only two options seem to be available to us: the status quo or Soviet gulags. The victory of capitalism would thus be definitive, and envisioning a society without exploitation would be a fanciful notion reserved for science fiction enthusiasts, nostalgic revolutionaries, and young idealists.
Taking a stand against these disheartening clichés, Building the Post-Capitalist Economy presents in detail concrete models for a profound reorganization of our economic and political system.
You can find the book in its original version in French here: https://luxediteur.com/catalogue/construire-leconomie-postcapitaliste/
The new translation in Portuguese here: https://lutasanticapital.com.br/products/pre-venda-construir-a-economia-pos-capitalista
And a book chapter in Englsih in open access that was partly based on the first chapters of the book here: https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollchap-oa/book/9781529235142/ch001.xml