Category: Podcasts

In this episode of the podcast From Alpha to Omega, host Tom O’Brien discusses Donal Ó Coisdealbha’s recent series of posts on his blog The Office For Control Over Results reviewing the book Supply Chain Science by Wallace J. Hopp and the implications for socialist planning. You can watch this episode here, while you can…

In this episode of the Future Histories podcast, host Jan Groos talks to Yousaf Nishat-Botero of the University of Birmingham about how ecological planning could operate in the 21st century through discussing a municipalist example in the form of the Office of Strategic Planning for the Barcelona metropolitan region. You can watch the episode here.

In this episode of the Future Histories podcast, host Jan Groos talks to Cédric Durand of the University of Geneva about the history, theory and contemporary practice of ecological planning. You can watch this episode here.

The Ones and Tooze podcast has released an episode where Adam Tooze, professor at Columbia University and Cameron Abadi, a deputy editor at Foreign Policy, discuss the history of economic planning in China from the Maoist era to the present day. Adam and Cameron then use this historical discussion to critically evaluate the 15th Five-Year…

In this episode of the podcast Critical Theory in Context, Jacob Blumenfeld interviews Aaron Benanav of Cornell University about Benanav’s proposal for a multi-criterial socialist economy. A summary of this episode (from the episodes website) can be found here: Should we be making recipes for the cook shops of the future? In part two of…

In this episode of the podcast Critical Theory In Context, Jacob Blumenfeld discusses the socialist calculation debate and its contemporary implications with John O’Neill of the University of Manchester. A summary of this episode (from the episode’s website) can be found here: What does it mean to plan an economy rationally—and who gets to decide…

In this new episode of the This Machine Kills podcast, co-hosts Jathan Sadowski and Edward Ongweso Jr. interview Aaron Benanav about the specific details of his proposal for a multi-criterial socialist economy. This is the second episode of a two-parter on the topic, the first part of which you can find out more about here.…

Recently an episode of the FREE (Forum for Real Economic Emancipation) Podcast has been released, in which Grace Blakeley is interviewed by Clara Mattei. In the episode they touch (amongst other topics) upon the question of economic planning in capitalism today and how a genuinely democratic form of ecnomic planning could look like and where…

The german public broadcasting radio Deutschlandfunk Kultur recently published an interview with Jan Groos as part of their podcast series ‘Sein und Streit‘. In the interview the questions of the imagination of better futures, utopias and different models of democratic economic planning as examples of those were discussed. You can listen to the interview here…

In this new episode of the From Alpha To Omega podcast, host Tom O’Brien interviews Ferdia O’Driscoll, one of the co-founders of the International Network for Democratic Economic Planning and the creator of the Bright Age Beyond website and Youtube channel, about what self-determination theory is and why it matters for socialism. This is the…

In this new episode of the This Machine Kills podcast, co-hosts Jathan Sadowski and Edward Ongweso Jr. interview Aaron Benanav about the theoretical foundations of his proposal for a multi-criterial socialist economy. This is the first episode of a two-parter on the topic. A summary can be found below: We’re joined by Aaron Benanav to…

In this episode of The Blockchain Socialist podcast, Dr. Christoph Sorg of the Humboldt University of Berlin is interviewed about his journal article Finance as a form of economic planning, which discusses how the financial system is one of the ways that economic planning happens under capitalism and its implications for the theory and practice…