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We’re happy to announce that we now have a page on Instagram, where we’ll be posting about upcoming events and general updates! You can find and follow our Instagram here.

We’re proud to announce that the Dutch Het Cybernetische Communistencollectief/The Cybernetic Communist Collective (HCC/CCC), which was formed in 2024 in order to develop the theory and practice of a cybernetic communist economy, is our latest partner organisation. We look forward to continue working with HCC to help popularise the theory and practice of democratic economic…

Johannes Buchner is teaching a course titled “AI-methods and Dynamical Systems in Mathematics, Planning and Sustainability – Towards Critical Mathematical Economics” at Freie Universität Berlin this semester (weekly from 15th October 2026 to 11th February 2027). The course will be in-person and will be taught in English. The key topics being covered are: More details…

At the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, the research group Integrated Sustainability Assessment of Societal Systems and Bioeconomy/ISAS, which has Dr. Walther Zeug as its head, has published a call for bachelors masters theses. A summary of the call (from a post from Zeug’s LinkedIn profile) can be found below: Are you interested in a…

The Independent Social Research Foundation is funding a project that is studying the theoretical, historical and practical aspects of digital democratic economic planning and its implications for future attempts. The interdisciplinary group of researchers that are involved in the project includes Eleni Papagiannaki, Vinit Ravishankar, Dominique Arsenault, Sascha Gander and James Macumber. One of the…

Recently the host of the Podcast “Future Histories” Jan Groos has started the “Future Histories Lab“. The description of the lab is taken from the Lab’s “About Us” website section: “The Future Histories podcast (futurehistories.today; for English episodes only see: futurehistories-international.com) started in 2019 with the goal of ‘expanding our idea of the future’ by…

The parliamentary group of the German left wing party Die Linke has submitted a motion in the german parliament on fundamentally changing the economic model of Germany. In the motion they address that this model is in deep crisis and needs to be rebuilt into a sustainable economy which stops exploiting humans and nature. In…

Heide Lutosch recently gave a talk in which she critiqued the dominant approaches in the debate around democratic economic planning from a feminist perspective and highlighted that they systematically neglect the question of care work. She layed out a possible approach that thinks planning from the perspective of care work itself, taking it as a…

Earlier this year, the UPF Barcelona School of Management published the book Embracing Post-Growth: Sustainable Paths Beyond Conventional Economic Approaches, edited by Oriol Amat and Marcos Eguiguren. In the book, there is Chapter 5: Planning for Post-Growth, where Cornel Ban of the Copenhagen Business School, Jacob Hasselbalch of the Copenhagen Business School and Matthias Kranke…

The 38th Annual Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics/SASE Conference was held from Monday 22nd June to Wednesday 24th June virtually and from Wednesday 1st July to Saturday 4th July in Bordeaux. At the conference, there were multiple panels, sessions and events that discussed the theory and practice of democratic economic planning, which demonstrates how…