Category: Videos

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…

The recording of our recent online talk with Kyle Thompson and James Macumber on “Lessons of Cybernetics for Democratic Economic Planning” 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 below.

The recording of our recent online talk with Paul Adler on “What Socialist Planning can Learn from Business Management” has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can watch it here or below.

In two new episodes of the German-language podcast Wohlstand für Alle, hosts Wolfgang M. Schmitt and Ole Nymoen discuss Aaron Benanav’s essay Beyond Capitalism about the theoretical foundations of his proposal for a multi-criterial socialist economy. You can listen to the first episode here and the second episode here.You can read Aaron Benanav’s two papers,…

The talks from the “Economic Planning in the Anthropocene – Institutional design for needs satisfaction within boundaries” conference in Geneva this September have been uploaded to a website. You can also find the slideshows of the talks linked as pdfs there. Here are the panels that were featured in the conference: Introduction – by Cédric…

The recorded talks of a workshop called “CYBERPLAN: Does the Economy fit into a Matrix or Tensor? Interrogating Cybernetic Planning Proposals”, which was held at the 2023 edition of the annual festival of the Gesellschaft für Informatik, have been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can find a playlist with all the uploaded talks…