Category: Books
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A book on socialist economic systems now available in paperback
The 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 back cover: The book opens by surveying pre-industrial utopias from Plato to Thomas More, and libertarian communal designs for superior living. It plumbs all aspects…
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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 the thesis (highlighting done for this post): “This thesis examines and refines the concept of Democratic Public Ownership, which has emerged in both theory and…
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David Kotz’ new book presents his vision of democratic economic planning
David 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 full chapter on what socialism should be like. According to an interview offered by the author: My view closely follows the model of socialism in…
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New Book on Big Tech and Planning
Recently 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 highlighted sections by us: “Big Tech firms dominate the global economy. But what value do they actually produce? In this brilliant survey of global tech…
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A new book on urban planning without growth
Yvonne 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, a chapter entitled “Economic Democracy and Cooperatives” might contain valuable information to people interested in democratic economic planning. The book is published by Policy Press.…
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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 in our recent online workshop on democratizing investment, the recording of which you can find here. Source: Jacobin Magazine Michael McCarthy’s The Master’s Tools opens with an…
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A new book on Postcapitalist Countrysides
Nick 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 and research urban planning in the UK, and therefore, the approach is planning from that perspective and not necessarily from an economic planning one. However,…
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“Creative Construction – Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond” edited by Jan Groos and Christoph Sorg published
The book “Creative Construction. Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond“, which was edited by Jan Groos and Christoph Sorg, has recently been published by Bristol University Press in their “Alternatives to Capitalism in the 21st Century” series. The book offers a wide array of contributions from various authors. For a short overview of…
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Book release: “Imagining After Capitalism” by Futurist Andy Hines
“Imagining After Capitalism“, a new book by futurist Andy Hines is set to be published in print on February 10, 2025 – the ebook version is already available here. He has engaged with aspects of the planning discourse in the past, e.g by reviewing Robin Hahnel’s 2022 book “A Participatory Economy”. You can find his…
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Book: a vision for 2048
Four German authors, Kai Kuhnhenn, Anne Pinnow, Matthias Schmelzer, and Nina Treu, recently published a book in English with Mayfly Books entitled Future for All—A Vision for 2048. The book is a project of the Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie (Laboratory for New Economic Ideas), a collective think-and-do tank in Leipzig. It addresses many different questions, from…
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IDA published new brochure: “Labor-time, Not Money”
IDA published a new brochure, “Labor-Time, Not Money. How Companies Can Calculate with Labor-Time”.
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Tom O’Brien and Dónal Ó Coisdealbha Livestream giving update on their book
Recently Tom O’Brien and Dónal Ó Coisdealbha did a livestream where they gave an update on the writing process of their book. You can find the livestream here. You can find more about the book and support them in their writing process here.