Category: Books
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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.
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A new postcapitalist model developed by Geert Reuten available in paperback
The professor of economics at the University of Amsterdam and ex-senator for the Dutch Socialist Party Geert Reuten has published a book presenting a model of a postcapitalist economy based on workers’ coops. The book was first published hardback with Brill in 2023 and is available in open access on their website. Haymarket just released…
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Book: The Commune Form
Book Title The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life Author Name Kristin Ross Publisher Verso Language English Blurb Here is the book description: What is the Commune? A leading radical historian looks at the global resurgence of the commune and asks how they can become sites of liberation. When the state recedes, the commune-form…
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A new book about control over our ways of life as an alternative to market and planning
A new book by Fabrice Flipo, who teaches at Institut Mines-Télécom, is now available online. The book, written in French, is entitled Changing our Ways of Life (Changer les modes de vie) and published at éditions du croquant. Here’s a translation of the summary: The market is to blame for the ecological crisis and the…