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 conjuncture of economic crisis and ecological breakdown. It diagnoses the dominance of mainstream neoclassical economics in academic education and policymaking as an integral part of…

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 paper aims to illuminate and critically assess the elements of an ecological planning for metabolic sovereignty in conditions of planetary urbanisation. The article builds on…

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 of debating planning while understanding it not in a purified and idealized way, but as a practice integrated in the complex intermingling of social and…

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 the European Journal of Social Theory. In this paper they also discuss proposals for democratic economic planning (especially technologically driven variants) how they fit into…

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 Union, the socialist calculation debate, and Keynesian social democracy in order to develop the theoretical foundations of a multi-criterial socialist economy. This is the first…

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“, the most important journal on political economy. In it they cite recent publications by Christoph Sorg and Jan Groos, both proponents of and researchers on…

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 the big German leftist newspaper nd. The article is an abbreviated version of the opening article that has appeared in 2024 in an issue…

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 research group of the CRITS. The 2022 paper proposed linking models of democratic economic planning to approaches to social metabolism. It argued that the negotiated…

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 making should take into account, only one of which is the amount of labor time required to make different goods and services. Excerpt: Of relevance…

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 There a Path Beyond Crisis? A Reflection on Science & Society’s Special Issue, “The Cuban Revolution at 65”. The article is behind a paywall and gives…

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 of attention paid to the question of expertise in the work surrounding postcapitalism. It is only accessible behind a paywall, but a green open-access version…