Category: Videos

The first webinar of the “Reviving Central Planning – A Global South Perspective” series, hosted by the International Development Economics Associates Limited (IDEAs), has been uploaded to their YouTube channel. It is titled “Why revisit national planning?” and featured C. P. Chandrasekhar and Prabhat Patnaik as panelists and was moderated by Farwa Sial. You can…

The Future Histories podcast has published a recording of the event Creative Construction and the Struggle over Progress that happened on Thursday 11th June from 7PM-9PM UTC+2 at the Thalia Theater. At the event, Kohei Saito, Christoph Sorg and Jan Groos discussed how democratic economic planning can be the solution to the social, economic and…

YouTuber Brandon Torres has released a video that critically evaluates an article by Vivek Chibber published in Jacobin that critiques central planning and argues for market socialism. In the video, Torres examines the economic history of the Soviet Union to outline the issues with Chibber’s argument and what lessons that Soviet Union has for attempts…

The recording of our recent online Talk with Leone on defining and measuring human needs with democratic planning has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can watch it here or below.

On Saturday 30th May, the economics department of the La Boétie Institute and the For the People Foundation organized the conference International Economic Days 2026. At the conference, there was a roundtable discussion on how ecological planning can be used to coordinate the transition to an ecologically sustainable society consisting of the speakers Matthias Schmelzer…

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.