A defense of a modular approach to democratic economic planning

Simon Tremblay-Pepin, a professor at the Elisabeth-Bruyère School of Social Innovation at Saint-Paul University and researcher in the research group on democratic planning of the CRITS, published a new logbook entry in French entitled “Why think of post-capitalism in terms of modules?“. The entry presents why a modular approach to democratic economic planning is preferable to the model-based approach previously used in the field (which he criticized in a previous entry, also in French).

Here is a translation of an excerpt of the entry:

A modular approach may reduce the cost of entering the field. Indeed, someone who is already interested in the question of housing or remuneration or social reproduction within capitalist societies may have an interest in knowing what is being said about this question from a postcapitalist perspective. If there is literature available on his or her field of research from a postcapitalist perspective, the transition to our field is still costly (you have to change your perspective completely and move from critique to proposition, which is not easy), but it is much less so than having to make the effort to get to know all the models and understand them well, and then start, several months of reading later, to work on the question that is of interest to you.

To read the full entry: https://innovationsocialeusp.ca/crits/blogue/pourquoi-penser-le-postcapitalisme-par-modules?