Call for Papers: Special Issue of Emancipations on Economic Planning

Emancipations, a four-year-old academic journal of critical social analysis published by Mississippi State University with an editorial board composed of prestigious scholars in the critical social sciences, has launched a call for papers for a special issue on Economic Planning. Larry Alan Busk, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Florida Gulf Coast University and Wabash College, will edit the special issue. Busk previously co-authored an article related to planning in Emancipations, entitled The Contradiction between Use-Value and Exchange-Value: Ecology, Imperialism, and the Telos of Production.

The deadline for submitting a paper is January 31, 2026 and the expected publication date is mid-2026.

Here is an excerpt of the call for paper:

Economic planning is back. Decades after being declared obsolete by even most radical thinkers, the possibility of organizing production on a non-market basis has seen a renewed wave of interest in the 2020s, exemplified by special issues of Competition and Change (2025) and South Atlantic Quarterly (2020), as well as Bristol University Press’s edited volume Creative Construction (2025).

We invite submissions from scholars across disciplines on any topic related to the theory, practice, and challenges of a planned economy. This includes but is not limited to: engagement with or critique of existing planning models, reflections on the socialist calculation debate or other historical controversies, and the relationship between economic planning and the ecological crisis. We also welcome proposals for alternative format contributions (e.g., debates, interviews), as well as book reviews.

To view the full call for paper: https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/emancipations/publication_ethics.html