Category: Articles
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Article: Amsterdam’s circular economy & postcapitalist possibilities
Article Title Amsterdam’s circular economy at a world-ecological crossroads: postcapitalist degrowth or the next regime of capital accumulation? Author Names Matthew Thompson, Charlotte Cator, David Beel, Ian Rees Jones, Martin Jones, Kevin Morgan Source/Publication CPES (Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy, and Society) Language English Brief Description The article examines the circular economy, taking Amsterdam as…
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Article: The Paris Commune’s Spirit Is Still Alive
Article Title: The Paris Commune’s Spirit Is Still Alive Author Name: Kristin Ross Source/Publication: Jacobin Language: English Brief Description: This is an extract from The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life by Kristin Ross, now available from Verso Books. Excerpt (Optional): Thinkers like Karl Marx and Peter Kropotkin identified the commune as the political…
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Article: Democratizing provisioning systems: a prerequisite for living well within limits
Article Title: Democratizing provisioning systems: a prerequisite for living well within limits Author Name: Julia Steinberger, Gauthier Guerin, Elena Hofferberth, Elke Pirgmaier Source/Publication: The journal Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy in a special issue “Shaping Provisioning Systems for Social-Ecological Transformation”. Language: English Excerpt: Article abstract: The core challenge of the 21st century, of achieving good…
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Report: Reviving the commons? A scoping review of urban and digital commoning
Report Title: Reviving the commons? A scoping review of urban and digital commoning Author Name: James Henderson and Oliver Escobar Source/Publication: Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh Language: English Excerpt: This report explores the contemporary revival of commoning practices in urban and digital contexts. The authors, James Henderson and Oliver Escobar, delve into the historical…
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Work organization, incentives and innovation – article on Cibcom
Cibcom has published an article (in Spanish) by Alan Ernesto Segura Pérez entitled “Work organization, incentives and innovation: limits of capitalism and proposals for a new socialism”. An excerpt of the introduction (machine-translated into English): This article begins with a general analysis of the form of dominant economic organization in modern capitalism, the capitalist corporation,…
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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…