The book “Creative Construction. Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond“, which was edited by Jan Groos and Christoph Sorg, has recently been published by Bristol University Press in their “Alternatives to Capitalism in the 21st Century” series.
The book offers a wide array of contributions from various authors. For a short overview of each chapter see this twitter thread by Jan Groos. Here are the contents:
Foreword by Kohei Saito
Introduction – Jan Groos and Christoph Sorg
Part I: Blueprints of Desire
1. A Brief Sketch of Four Models of Democratic Economic Planning – Audrey Laurin-Lamothe, Frédéric Legault and Simon Tremblay-Pepin
2. Basic Problems of a Democratically Planned Economy – Jakob Heyer
3. Social Dividend Socialism: Labour Autonomy in a Participatory Planned Economy – James Muldoon and Dougie Booth
4. Distributed Commonist Planning – Stefan Meretz and Simon Sutterlütti
5. Counter-Planning the Polycrisis: For Biocommunism – Nick Dyer-Witheford
6. Planning as an Art of Government – Jan Groos
7. Discovery Beyond Competition – Evgeny Morozov in conversation with Jan Groos
Part II: Building Bridges
8. (Re)-Imagining Housing as an Infrastructure for Social Reproduction – Rabea Berfelde and Philipp Möller
9. Democratic Planning in One Country? From the Anarchy of Public Planning to Negotiated Globalization – Christoph Sorg
10. The Question of Transformation: Approaches to Economic Planning in Existing Policy Proposals – Samuel Decker
11. Care Revolution: A Transformation Strategy for a Solidary Society – Gabriele Winker and Matthias Neumann
12. Relational Revolutions – Eva von Redecker in conversation with Jan Groos
Part III: Non-Boundaries
13. Planned Degrowth: Macroeconomic Coordination for Sustainable Degrowth – Elena Hofferberth, Cédric Durand and Matthias Schmelzer
14. Post-Sovereign Planning? Nature, Culture and Care in the New Socialist Calculation Debate – Samia Zahra Mohammed
15. Democratizing the Forces of Re/Production: AI Planning as a Sensing Device for a Degrowth Economy – Simon Schaupp
16. Embracing the Small Stuff: Caring for Children in a Liberated Society – Heide Lutosch
17. Socialism, Planning and the Relativity of Dirt – Nancy Fraser in conversation with Christoph Sorg
Conclusion – Jan Groos and Christoph Sorg