Category: Articles

On the website Polar Marxism, Vilen Esteni has published a paper outlining its conception of cybernetic socialist planning. A summary of the paper can be found below: This paper presents the general architecture of Cenes (Centralized Network Economic System), a proposed centralized network economy conceived as an organizational and technical implementation of Plan III. The…

On the Participatory Economy Project website, Anders Sandström is interviewed about his new book The Participatory Economy: Adding Realism to Democratic Planning that will be released later in October. You can find a summary of the interview below: Anders Sandström is a Swedish accounting expert, who has contributed to several books focusing on questions of…

A new discussion paper by Johannes Buchner titled “Critical Mathematical Economics and AI for Ecological Economic Planning – The Misuse of Mathematical Models and the Ambivalence of AI for Economic Democracy” has been published. You can find the abstract (translated from the original German) below: “The dramatic economic consequences of climate change are fundamentally underestimated…

On the website AOC, Olessia Kirtchik, a sociologist at the Internet and Society Centre (CIS) of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), has published an article that critically analyses the rise of forms of algorithmic prediction that utilise artificial intelligence and discusses their implications for economic planning. A summary of the article can…

The website of the Participatory Economy Project have published pamphlets that summarise their Participatory Economy model. Further information can be found below: The Participatory Economy Project is pleased to announce that — in addition to our articles, videos, podcast episodes, and books — we now make available in another medium more promotional material about the…

On the website of Tempest, Kim Moody has published an article critiquing a recent interview with Vivek Chibber for Jacobin where he outlines his criticisms of central planning and his support for market socialism. A summary of the article can be found below: Kim Moody assesses some recent writings and interview by Catalyst editor and…

On Thursday 19th March from 9:30AM-3PM UTC+1 , the workshop Planification Écologique: Reality and Aspiration, organized by Gabriel Kahan (Sciences Po) and supported by LIEPP’s Environmental Policies research group (project Ecological Planning in the 21st Century: Uses, Forms, Methods and Effects) and INDEP, was held at SciencesPo Salle 900 9 rue de la Chaise Paris.…

In an article for The Participatory Economy Project, Robin Hahnel, who co-created the participatory economy model, discusses how decisions around pay are made under a participatory economy. A summary of the article can be found below: In capitalist economies you are evaluated, and your pay is decided by the firm’s owner, or by a personnel…

Tomas Härdin and David Zachariah have published a new version of their paper proposing a form for socialist planning that has been specifically designed to respond to the social, economic, political and ecological issues that have been created by capitalist-caused climate change. This new edition of their paper includes several clarifications of their arguments and…

“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs” is often treated as Marx’s definition of “real communism.” But what if Marx’s point was precisely the opposite: that communism cannot be reduced to a formula of distribution? Hermann Lueer argues in his article that the common fixation on “fair distribution” and “free…

In an article for the Financial Times, FT’s European economics commentator Martin Sandbu argues that recent developments in artificial intelligence overturn the assumptions of the socialist calculation debate and make a socialist economy possible in the 21st century. An extract from the article can be found below In all the speculation about what future artificial…

This paper by Gabriel Kahan was recently published in the academic journal Competition & Change. It examines how the state tries to influence private capital’s decarbonisation through green investment subsidies. To explore this, the paper examines two green subsidies in France, both aimed at decarbonising some of the country’s highest-emitting industrial sites.By attaching conditions to…