Category: News
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New translation by Cibcom of article on the economic planning of ice cream production in the Soviet Union
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in NewsThe Cibcom collective has recently translated the article Soviet Scoops: Ice Cream with Socialist Characteristics by the blog The Stalin Era into Spanish. The article examines the history, development and […]
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Jason Hickel promotes democratizing the economy in the Spanish Parliament
Jason Hickel in a recent address at the Beyond Growth Conference in the Spanish Parliament discusses economic politics in the polycrisis, highlighting the fundamentally undemocratic nature of capitalist production and […]
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New German Wikipedia Entry for “Planned Economy”
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in NewsThere’s a new German Wikipedia entry on “Planned Economy”. Before, there was only a German entry on “Centrally Planned Economy“, which didn’t reflect the state of the discussion on economic […]
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Ida now has a new Multilingual Website
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in NewsINDEP member IDA (Initiative for democratic labour time calculation) has launched a new website!
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Article about Legal Evaluation on the Socialization of the Energy Sector in German Newspaper
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in NewsThe German newspaper taz has published an article reporting on the recently published legal evaluation on the possibility of socializing the energy sector. The legal evalutation was commissioned by the […]
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Wirtschaftsdemokratie.jetzt now also available in English
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in NewsThe website “Wirtschaftsdemokratie.jetzt” (“Economic and organisational democracy”), which contains diverse materials on economic and organisational democracy on the macro-, meso- and microscale, is now also available in English. To switch […]
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Recording of INDEP online Presentation by the IDA uploaded to YouTube
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in NewsThe recording of the INDEP online event with the IDA on their labour time accounting app has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can find the video via […]
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Panel on the Historical Subject of Planning at the Paris Historical Materialism Conference
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in NewsAt this year’s Historical Materialism conference in Paris there is going to be a panel with the title “Après la révolution – Quel sujet historique pour la planification? (After the […]
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Appeal to Members of the European Parliament to not intensify competitive Market Mechanisms in its Public Procurement
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in NewsThe European Union is on the brink of introducing sweeping changes to its public procurement rules, with the European Parliament’s Internal Market Committee (IMCO) set to vote on June 26 […]
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A large-audience text advocating for green indicative planning
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in NewsCornel Ban and Jacob Hasselbalch published a large-audience version of their academic article published in New Political Economy last December. This shorter and more accessible text is published in Phenomenal […]
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IDA’s Criticism of Cockshott and Cottrell’s “Cybersocialism” translated into Chinese
New Chinese translation of IDA’s critique of Cybersocialism by Cockshott and Cottrell.
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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 […]