Category: Article
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Study on deregulation and public-private partnerships of public energy utilities by “The Climate and Community Project” calls for democratic planning and ownership of electricity infrastructure
The Climate and Community Project recently released a study in which they evaluate the patterns of deregulation and public-private partnerships of public energy utilities in South Africa, the UK, Uruguay, France and Nebraska. While all of these different context have their own history and nuances, they found that this shared pattern and the widespread adoption…
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A recent article offers new attacks on the Austrian victory claim in the socialist calculation debate
An open-access article in English by Jan Philipp Dapprich and Dan Greenwood, published in the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, proposes a new cybersocialist approach to the socialist calculation debates. In this paper entitled Cybersocialism and the Future of the Socialist Calculation Debate, Dapprich and Greenwood review the limits of Austrian arguments when interacting…
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Planning for Degrowth – How artificial intelligence and big data revitalize the debate on democratic economic planning
The Institute for International Political Economy Berlin has published a working paper on degrowth and democratic economic planning by Leo Schlichter entitled “Planning for Degrowth – How artificial intelligence and Big Data revitalize the debate on democratic economic planning”. Here is the abstract: The Degrowth movement advocates a radical shift from our capitalist economic system…
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Explaining Communal Income and Why it is Essential to Socialism
Ferdia O’Driscoll has written an article published on the Participatory Economy Project website on the governance and allocation of income in socialism entitled “Explaining Communal Income and Why it is Essential to Socialism”. Here is an excerpt from the introduction: Communal Income refers to the governance and accounting of income received by individuals for formal…
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Article on Degrowth and Planning by Elena Hofferberth and Matthias Schmelzer in the german Jacobin Magazine
Recently an original german speaking article dealing with the emergent overlap of the Degrowth and Planning discourse has been published in the german edition of the Jacobin magazine. It highlights the implicit reliance of large parts of the Degrowth discourse on some form of economic planning in order to achieve its proposed reduction of resource…
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The social relations of modern industrial production and what it would mean to plan them
Dónal Ó Coisdealbha has published an article entitled Modern Industry and Prospects for Socialism in Cosmonaut about how the social production relation work in capitalism today and how they could evolve to a democratically planned organisation of work. Ó Coisdealbha is well placed to produce such an article since he is the director of process…
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Interview about INDEP on ZNet
ZNet has published an in-depth interview by Mark Evans with Ferdia O’Driscoll (Bright Age Beyond), an INDEP co-founder, independent researcher and social cybernetician based in Dublin, Ireland. Learn who is behind the International Network for Democratic Economic Planning, what it aims to achieve, when and how it was founded, and why it is crucial for…
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German newspaper article on ecological planning in France + a shoutout to INDEP
Samuel Decker, member of the Network “Plurale Ökonomik” (hereterodox economics) and the german Network for Democratic Economic Planning has published an article in the german newspaper “Frankfurter Rundschau”. It focuses on ecological planning in France, specifically the recent French elections. He also highlights the emergence of a lively debate around democratic economic planning and gave…
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New Study on Advancing Economic Democracy by FEPS (Foundation for European Progressive Studies)
The Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) has published a study on advancing Economic Democracy. This study is part of a larger project on Economic Democracy in partnership with Open Society Foundations. FEPS has also held and participated in multiple events where parts of the study have been presented and discussed. The study itself can…
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Deepening the degrowth planning debate: division of labor, complexity, and the roles of markets and digital tools
The journal Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy just published an article in English by Max Koch, professor at Lund University’s School of Social Work, entitled: Deepening the degrowth planning debate: division of labor, complexity, and the roles of markets and digital tools. The article is in open access and part of a special issue on…