Category: News
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New Book Has Chapter On Post-Growth Planning
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…
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Democratic Economic Planning Discussed At SASE 2026 Conference
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…
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Wide-Ranging Response to Kohei Saito’s New Book in German-Speaking Media (ongoing)
Following the publication of the German translation of Kohei Saito’s new book “Am Ende des Fortschritts. Überleben in den Ruinen des Kapitalismus”, the response in German-speaking media has been very wide-ranging and is ongoing. For this reason, we are compiling this list of articles, interviews, videos, etc., which otherwise would have been individual news items.…
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Op-Ed in Newspaper “Le Monde” on Economic Planning in France
An Op-Ed by Antoine Jourdan, Eric Monnet and Laurent Warlouzet has recently been published in the French newspaper “Le Monde“. For the 80th anniversary of the creation of the french “Commissariat général au plan” (CGP) (General Planning Commission), they reflect on the history and and future of French economic planning. They highlight that planning will…
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Concept Paper on the Socialization of the German Healthcare Sector Published
The German think tank communia and german initiative Poliklink Syndikat have published a concept paper on the socializaton of the health care sector in Germany. Below you can read more about the paper (translated from the original German website). You can read the concept paper in German here. “A new concept paper by communia and…
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Hermann Lueer And Fredo Corvo Discuss Wage Struggles And Labour-Time Accounting
The communist website Leftdis has published two texts by Hermann Lueer and Fredo Corvo that discuss the relationship between wage struggles, abolishing wage labour and labour-time accounting in a communist society. You can read the two articles in English here or in German here.
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ICEA Talks About Self-Managed Markets And Democratic Planning At 20th Critical Economics Conference In Bilbao
The ICEA (Instituto de Ciencias Económicas y de la Autogestión/Institute of Economic and Self-Management Sciences), an INDEP partner organisation, will be giving a talk on the relationship between markets, democratic economic planning and self-management at the 20th Critical Economists Conference in Bilbao from Wednesday 11th June to Thursday 12th June. A summary of what the…
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Center for Cybernomics Research becomes new INDEP Partner Organization
The Center for Cybernomics Research (CCR) has recently joined INDEP as a partner organization. They are a research institute focused on cybernetics, economics, organisational theory and other related topics. You can join their discord server here. They are also affiliated with the Econophysics discord community, the Accessist International and the Cybernetic Socialism subreddit.
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Debate on the Role of Labour-Time Accounting in a Transitional Society
An IDA talk sparked a debate on the transition to communism and labour-time accounting; contributions came from International Perspective, Fredo Corvo, and Hermann Lueer.
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Paul Cockshott Critiques Vivek Chibber’s Jacobin Article On Central Planning And Market Socialism
On his YouTube channel, Paul Cockshott of the University of Glasgow has made a video critiquing an article in Jacobin by Vivek Chibber of New York University where Chibber critiques the theory and practice of central planning and argues for market socialism. You can read Chibber’s article here while you watch Paul’s critique here.
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Letter To Proletären Argues For Ecosocialist Planning
Proletären, the newspaper of the Communist Party of Sweden (K), has published a letter by Tomas Härdin arguing that the only way to solve the climate crisis is through instituting a global planned economy. A summary of the letter can be found below: This is a letter I wrote to Proletären, the newspaper of the…
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INDEP’s New Organisational Partnership with Espaces Marx
We are excited to announce our new organisational partnership between INDEP and the Espaces Marx in France. Espaces Marx (formerly the Institute for Marxist Research) is an association dedicated to critical thinking, education, and intellectual production, rooted in the critical and emancipatory tradition of Marxism. Its goal is to conduct in-depth analyses of the social,…