Emancipations Journal Publishes Special Issue On Economic Planning

The interdisciplinary, open-access journal Emancipations has published a special issue devoted to economic planning, featuring contributions from Simon Tremblay-Pepin, Audrey Laurin-Lamothe, and others. The issue is guest-edited by Larry Alan Busk, who also participates in a debate piece with an Austrian School economist on the contemporary relevance of the calculation debate.

The issue’s table of contents can be found below:

Note from the Editor

The Specter of Planning: Introduction to the Special Issue
Larry Alan Busk

Essays

From Models to Modules: Towards a Change of Approach in Postcapitalist Political Economy
Simon Tremblay-Pepin

Learning (Non-)Planning from Yugoslav Socialism
Annette Freyberg-Inan and Tim Platenkamp

Democratic Economic Planning from and for Social Reproduction: Foundations for a Postcapitalist Research Agenda
Sophie Elias-Pinsonnault, Bengi Akbulut, and Audrey Laurin-Lamothe

Class Struggle and the Socialist Economic Calculation Debate
Tiago Camarinha Lopes

Planification against Extractivism: Towards a Democratic Agroecological Planification against Agrarian Capitalism in A Estrada (Galicia, Spain)
Jacobo Rivas Sanmartín, Rubén Camilo Lois González, and Paula Noya Vázquez

Other analyses

The Calculation Debate in a New Century: A Conversation between an Austrian School Economist and a Socialist Philosopher
Tegan L. Truitt and Larry Alan Busk

Use Value, Growth, and the Ontology of Capitalism: Richard Westra Interviewed by Larry Alan Busk
Richard Westra and Larry Alan Busk

You can read the issue here.