Category: Articles

Recently the educational platform on heterodox economics ‘Exploring Economics‘ has published an article called “Towards a New Economics of Collapse and Construction“. This article locates capitalism in our current historical […]

Yousaf Nishat-Botero and Matt Thompson have published a new paper titled ‘Planning in nature’s metropolis: Metabolic municipalism and ecological planning in Barcelona’ in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. The […]

Hannah Bensussan, a post-doctoral researcher in political economy at the University of Sorbonne Paris Nord, published a text in Jacobin entitled Economic Planning Shouldn’t Be a Swear Word. The text highlights the importance […]

The sociologists Philipp Staab and Christoph Sorg have published a new paper titled “The rise of digital eco- technocracy: Ecological crisis, digital innovation and legitimacy in the adaptive society” in […]

Aaron Benanav, a professor at Cornell University, just published the article Beyond Capitalism—1 in issue 153 of the New Left Review. The article critically evaluates visions of socialism, the Soviet […]

A new paper by James Jackson and Mathias Larsen titled “Green financial planning: a state-capital relationship meta-governed through the Paris agreement” has been published in the journal “New Political Economy“, […]

Recently an article pleading for the wieder left (from parties to the extra-parlamentary left) to pay attention to and participate in the revived debate around democratic economic planning has appeared […]

In “A Political Economy of Socialism,” the IDA analyzes the debate of democratic planned economy in the light of labour time calculation. The article is behind a paywall and available in German.

Pat Devine and Fikret Adaman recently reacted to an article published in 2022 by a group of authors called Planning for Entropy, who are members of the Democratic Economic Planning […]

In an article published by the Participatory Economy Project, professor Robin Hahnel offers a critique of labor time accounting, arguing that there are three different categories of real costs which rational economic decision […]

David Laibman just published in Science & Society (a Marxist journal he edits) a new presentation of Multilevel Democratic Iterative Coordination (MDIC) (a model he developed) entitled Cuba’s Socialism: Is […]

Ellen D. Russell and Simon Tremblay-Pepin just published an article entitled Economic Expertise in Postcapitalist Democratic Economic Planning in the journal Critical Sociology. This article aims to address the lack […]