Category: Podcasts

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…

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…

Simon Tremblay-Pepin, a professor at Saint Paul University and a member of the research group on democratic economic planning at the CRITS, was interviewed by Frédérick Aubert on his podcast La Pelotte. The interview is conducted in French and primarily focuses on the book Construire l’économie postcapitaliste (Building a Postcapitalist Economy), but also addresses the…

In this new episode of the Future Histories podcast, host Jan Groos interviews Aaron Benanav, an academic at Cornell University, about the second part of Benanav’s “Beyond Capitalism” essay series in the New Left Review. More specifically, Benanav lays out the institutional design of his proposal of a multi-criterial economy You can watch the episode…

In this new episode of the Future Histories podcast, host Jan Groos interviews Aaron Benanav, an academic at Cornell University, about the first part of Benanav’s “Beyond Capitalism” essay series in the New Left Review. More specifically, in this episode, Benanav lays the groundwork for his proposal of a multi-criterial socialist economy. You can watch…

In a recent episode of the Dissens podcast titled ‘Capitalism is broken, here’s how we overcome it’, Aaron Benanav talks about the economic crises of our times, centralisation of economic and political power and the hype around artificial intelligence. Building on those topics, he develops his own sketch of a democratically planned economy, based on…

Members of the Participatory Economy Project attended and gave presentations at the International Network for Democratic Economic Planning’s first ever in-person conference in Montreal in July 2025. In this recent episode of their podcast, PEP Talk, they discuss what they thought of the event.

Behind the News, a radio show hosted by writer and political analyst Doug Henwood for about 30 years, has aired an episode on Democratic Economic Planning. In the episode, he receives Aaron Benanav on his recent article published in New Left Review and Jerome Nikolai Warren on the potential of cooperatives. The episode can be…

In this episode of the podcast Tech Won’t Save Us, host Paris Marx interviews Aaron Benanav about his recent articles for the New Left Review that outline his vision for a multi-criterial socialist economy, with this episode focusing on how such an economy can center human experience through democratic discourse to drive social and technological…

In the new episode of the German left-wing “Dissens” Podcast, Matthias Schmelzer talks about the current strategic debates within the climate movement, Degrowth and democratic economic planning. This episode is part of a series on planning, called “Was ist der Plan?”. The previous two episodes in the series are with Christoph Sorg, introducing the topic…