Category: News
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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 distribution. Hickel refers to the imbalance of an over-production of unnecessary products and a chronic underproduction of necessary goods such as clean energy, affordable housing…
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New German Wikipedia Entry for “Planned Economy”
There’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 planning today. The new entry touches on some of these new developments, but additions are of course welcome!
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Ida now has a new Multilingual Website
INDEP 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
The 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 think tank communia and was recently presented to the public at an event. For more info, click here.
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Wirtschaftsdemokratie.jetzt now also available in English
The 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 the language, just go to the right corner of the top menu and select the language on the drop down menu. We also indicated the…
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Recording of INDEP online Presentation by the IDA uploaded to YouTube
The 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 this link or watch it below.
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Panel on the Historical Subject of Planning at the Paris Historical Materialism Conference
At 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 revolution – What historical subject for planning?)”. The Panel will include the following talks: (- Pierre Caye – Planning in Contemporary Complex Systems– Paul Feltmann…
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Appeal to Members of the European Parliament to not intensify competitive Market Mechanisms in its Public Procurement
The 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 on a report that includes a controversial amendment—Article 13c. This proposal would significantly curb the ability of public authorities to award contracts to in-house or…
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A large-audience text advocating for green indicative planning
Cornel 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 World and is available in open access. It argues in favor of indicative planning integrated into a mixed economy to make it more durable and…
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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 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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Newsletter by The New Institute about Kohei Saito’s work
The New Institute has recently published a newsletter giving an overview of Kohei Saito’s work and providing some insights into Saito’s project there, where he chairs the program “Beyond Capitalism: War Economy and Economic Planning.” To quote from the newsletter: “If we want to avoid destroying the planet, he says, we must gear up for…