Category: Books
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A new Handbook on Degrowth mentions economic planning
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in BooksAnitra Nelson, activist-scholar affiliated with the Informal Urbanism Research Hub (InfUr-) at University of Melbourne, Australia, recently edited the Routledge Handbook of Degrowth. This collective work comprises 35 chapters, covering […]
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Two chapters on democratic economic planning by Martín Arboleda newly translated
Two chapters of the book Gobernar la utopía. Sobre planificación y el poder popular by Martín Arboleda, associate professor of the School of Sociology and Director of the Social Transformations […]
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Tony Smith’s new Book “A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century” published
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in BooksMarxist theorist Tony Smith just published the book A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century Towards the ‘Full and Free Development of Every Individual’, at Brill. After outlining a Marxist critique […]
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Tim Platenkamp proposes a new model of democratic economic planning
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in BooksTim Plantenkamp, a trade unionist, just published a book The Constitution of Socialism: A World without Capital, at Brill. The book is divided into two main sections: Diagnosis and Remedy. […]
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A new book on “The Future of Revolution” includes some elements on economic planning
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in BooksJasper Bernes, a professor in the English Department at UCLA, just published a book entitled The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising […]
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A book on socialist economic systems now available in paperback
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in BooksThe book “Socialist Economic Systems” by Steven Rosefielde is now available in paperback from Routledge. The book offers very short and readable comments on 22 socialist economic systems. Here’s an excerpt of the […]
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New PhD Thesis on Democratic Public Ownership
The PhD thesis of Thomas Matthew Hanna titled “Advancing the Concept of Democratic Public Ownership” has been published on the website of the University of Glasgow. Here’s the abstract of […]
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David Kotz’ new book presents his vision of democratic economic planning
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in BooksDavid Kotz, an emeritus professor from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, just published a book entitled Socialism for Today: Escaping the Cruelties of Capitalism. The book, published by Wiley, has a […]
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New Book on Big Tech and Planning
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in BooksRecently Verso Books published “Cybernetic Circulation Complex: Big Tech and Planetary Crisis” by Nick Dyer-Witheford and Alessandra Mularoni. Below you can find the description provided by the publisher, with some […]
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A new book on urban planning without growth
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in BooksYvonne Rydin, professor of Planning, Environment and Public Policy at the University College London, just published a book entitled Planning Without Growth. If the book is mainly centred around urban planning, […]
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For a Democratic Society, Democratize Finance – Jacobin
A review by Grace Blakeley of The Master’s Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan to Rebuild It) by Michael A. McCarthy (Verso Books, 2025). Michael A McCarthy also participated […]
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A new book on Postcapitalist Countrysides
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in BooksNick Gallent, Menelaos Gkatzios, Mark Scott, and Andrew Purves just published an edited book in English entitled Postcapitalist Countrysides – From commoning to community wealth building. All the authors teach […]