Category: Videos

The recording of our recent online Talk with Eric Meier on the Political Aesthetics of Democratic Economic Planning has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can watch it here or below.

The think-tank Autonomy has interviewed Aaron Benanav about his report for Autonomy where he outlines a transition strategy to replace capitalism with multi-criterial socialism. A summary of the interview can be found below: Political economist Aaron Benanav discusses what it would mean to move from profit and efficiency-driven economy to one driven by multiple, sustainable…

Walther Zeug has recently published a recording of a talk he gave for the “Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik Chemnitz” (Network heterodox economics Chemnitz). In the talk he gives a general introduction to the model “Cybernetic Democratic Economic Planning” that he and Jakob Heyer have developed. You can find the talk in German here.

A recording of a meeting by the Themagroep Cybernetische Economie van de RSP/Cybernetic Economy Thematic Group of the Revolutionair Socialistische Partij/Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Party and IDA (Initiative Demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung/Initiative for Democratic Working Time Accounting), where two IDA members discussed how a communist economy can be organised on the basis of labour-time, has been released. A…

The full colloquium organized by STRIVE at the University of Lausanne on April 23rd has been recorded and uploaded. Here is the program with links to the right part of the recording. All the presentations at the colloquium were in French, except the penultimate one, which was in English. 01:11 : Welcome – Augustin Fragnière,…

The recording of our recent online Panel on green planning for transition and policy in collaboration with Common Wealth‘s Green Planning Commission has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can watch it here or below.

Arte, a French-German public TV-Broadcaster has published a video interview with Cédric Durand. The interview discusses ecological democratic planning, drawing on his book “Comment bifurquer – Les Principes de la Planification Écologique“, co-authored with Razmig Keucheyan. The book has recently also been translated into German as “Das Prinzip Verzweigung – Über ökologische Planung in Wirtschaft…

The recording of our recent online talk with Jon Walker on “Viable Systems, Authoritarian Control, Neo-liberal Economics and the Future of our Socio-Economic-Political Approach to Governance” has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. This online talk was part of the INDEPxMetaphorum Online Talk Series for Stafford Beer’s Centennial. You can watch it here or…

A recording of the London School of Economics Ralph Miliband Programme’s lecture “”Is a democratic economy possible? Lessons from history, horizons for the future” has been published on the LSE’s YouTube channel. In this lecture, Isabelle Ferreras of the Belgian National Science Foundation, Common Wealth’s Founder and Director Matthew Lawrence and ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at…

The recording of our recent online talk with Janina Urban and Solveig Degen – “Who Plans the Future? Democratising Investment in a Financialised Economy” has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. This talk was held in partnership with the Centre for Social Critique at the Humboldt University Berlin. You can watch it here or…

The recording of our recent online talk with Angela Espinosa on “The Viable System Model as an Emancipatory Approach to Sustainable Self-Governance: Examples from Applications in Communities and Nations” has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. This online talk was part of the INDEPxMetaphorum Online Talk Series for Stafford Beer’s Centennial. You can watch…

On 19th January 2026, Aaron Benanav gave a talk at Utrecht University as part of the Visions for the Future project’s speaker series, where Aaron outlined his proposal for a multicriterial socialism. A summary of the talk (from the description of the video) can be found below: This talk presents an alternative socio-economic system—what I…