Category: Books

Economist Cedric Durand and sociologist Razmig Keucheyan got their book “Comment bifurquer: les principes de la planification écologique” (Switching gears: The principles of ecological planning) translated into German under the title “Das Prinzip Verzweigung – Über ökologische Planung in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft” and published by Dietz Berlin. The book is centred on ecological planning and…

Jérôme Baschet and Laurent Jeanpierre have edited a collection of works by 80 authors in French, entitled Monde postcapitalistes (Postcapitalist Worlds), published by La Découverte. The book is massive, just over 900 pages, and is organized into twelve sections divided into many short entries. Some entries will have high interest for people working on democratic…

A new issue of Estudios, the journal published by the CNT (Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, an anarchist union in Spain), has been released. This issue, written in Spanish, is structured in three volumes—Revolutionary Unionism, Ecology, and Economic Planning—which can be acquired separately or together. One of these focuses on democratic economic planning and features contributions…

In late January 2026, Tony Andréani, Emeritus Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Paris 8, France, published the book “Ten Essays for a 21st Century Socialism” as part of Routledge’s book series Critiques and Alternatives to Capitalism. In the book, Andréani engages in a critical discussion of both historical attempts…

In a new literary essay, sociologist Tilman Reitz from the University of Jena reviews a collection of four books connected to democratic economic planning, real utopias, socialization and ecological economics (Creative Construction, Öffentlicher Luxus, Anarchistische Gesellschaftsentwürfe, and Anarchistische Ökologien) and their utility in constructing alternatives to capitalism. The review in German language can be read…

Marko Grdešić and Mislav Žitko, Associate Professor and Assistant Professor respectively at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, published in October 2025 the book Socialist Economics in Yugoslavia: A Critical History as part of the book series Routledge Studies in the History of Economics. In this book, Grdešić and Žitko critically examine the history of workers’…

Richard Westra, a Professor at the University of Opole, published in August 2025 the book “Political Economy of Eco-sustainable Alternatives Progressive and Equitable Futures” as part of the book series “Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy“. In the book, Westra critically evaluates eco-socialist literature in order to outline the foundations of a feasible form of eco-socialist…

Academics Rhiannon Firth of the University College London and John Preston of the University of Essex have published a new book Utopia in the Factory: Prefigurative Knowledge Against Cybernetics that critiques the theories and visions of techno-optimistic socialists that are based on cybernetics, automation, artificial intelligence and Industry 4.0 for being unable to include human…

Drawing on their work building public-common partnerships through the action research organisation Abundance Kai Heron, Keir Milburn, and Bertie Russell have written the exciting new book Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future.

Marxist sociologists Dario Azzellini and Marcelo Vieta have just published a book Commoning Labour and Democracy at Work: When Workers Take Over with Routledge. After examining theories of workers’ self-management, the rest of the book analyses a contemporary example of this phenomenon in the form of worker-recuperated enterprises in Latin America, Europe and the rest…

Mathilde Viennot, an economist working at the Haut-Commissariat à la stratégie et au plan and co-founder of a think tank called the Institut Avant-Garde, just published a book entitled La planificaton écologique (Ecological planning). The book is published in the famous collection Repères of the La Découverte composed of short and accessible introductory books on…