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Expert Workshop on Democratic Economic Planning
November 29 – November 30
This two-day expert workshop titled “Democratic Economic Planning in Times of Planetary Crises“, brings together leading scholars to explore democratic economic planning as a response to planetary crises. The event will feature discussions on ecological planning, alternative economic coordination, directed technological change and societal design.
The event is co-organised by the Institute for Spatial and Socio-Ecological Transformations (ISSET) at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien), the International Karl Polanyi Society (IKPS), the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE), the Arbeiterkammer Wien (AK Wien) and the Kompetenzzentrum Alltagsökonomie Vienna.
The workshop includes three open-access events:
– Friday, 29th November, 6-7:30pm (CET) | Public Lecture by Cédric Durand (University of Geneva) on “Ecological Planning And the Problem of Knowledge in the Anthropocene“
Abstract: Cédric Durand discusses the evolving role of economic planning in addressing today’s social-ecological challenges. He will present his and Keycheyan’s innovative model for economic planning which reimagines past and current social devices and institutions to foster democratic control over investment and align economic planning with planetary boundaries. In this way, Durand offers a bold and fresh vision of democratic economic planning for addressing the pressing social and environmental challenges of our time.
– Saturday, 30th November, 9-10:30 am (CET) | Public Lecture by Attila Melegh (University of Budapest) on “Non-capitalist Mixed Economies: A Polanyian Approach“
Abstract: In his talk, Attila Melegh aims to reinterpret and analyse historical and current non-capitalist or dual/mixed capitalist models as potential solutions to the systemic crisis of capitalism. Drawing inspiration from Karl Polanyi and other critical traditions, Melegh will explore how various forms of markets have combined redistributive, reciprocity, and householding relations to create economies capable of producing broad-based prosperity and stability. The focus will be on East European experiments, with consideration of Asian, African, and American socialist models, particularly the Chinese version – all will be critically analysed through Polanyian and other critical frameworks.
– Saturday, 30th November, 5:30-7:30 pm (CET) | Final Panel Discussion with Cédric Durand, Aaron Benanav, Cecilia Rikap and Christoph Sorg – Moderation by Jens Schröter on “How to Democratically Plan Social Metabolism and Technological Change?“
All events will take place here: LC Clubroom, WU Vienna
Please sign-up: here
All three events will be live-streamed. Online participation is possible with prior registration using the link above.
Event Website: https://www.wu.ac.at/institut-fuer-raeumliche-und-sozial-oekologische-transformationen-isset/events
The workshop also includes a program that is not open to the public, the non-public schedule is as follows:
Friday, 29.11.:
Session 1 – Democratic Economic Planning for Social-Ecological-Transformation
- Christoph Sorg (HU Berlin): Ecological Planning or Planned Obscolescene: Polanyian Planning as Socio-Metabolic Embedding
- Jan Philipp Daprich (Potsdam University): Degrowth is Not What Socialism Needs
- Sarah Ware (CEU Vienna) & Jana Gebauer (IÖW): A Dialogue on Democratic Spatial Planning: Learning from Practical Experiences Across Time Within and Beyond the State
- Solveig Degen (WU Vienna): Two Strategies for Democratic Economic Planning to Enhance Social-Ecological Provisioning
- Moderation by Astrid Schöggl (AK Wien)
Session 2 – Planning Investment, Organizational and Technological Change
- Aaron Benanav (Cornell University): Constructing a Socialist Investment Function
- Cecilia Rikap (UCL): Planning Science and Technology for a Democratic Ecological Economy
- Nils Rochowicz (Oxford University/TU Chemnitz): Eliciting Future Needs for Planning Innovation
- David Flacher (Université Paris Cité/UTC Paris), Nathalie Coutinet (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord) & Dominique Arsenault (UTC Paris): Planning and Making: Industrial Commons, Distributed Manufacturing and Low tech for a Democratic Ecological Economy
- Moderation by Verena Halsmayer (University of Vienna)
Saturday 30.11.:
Session 3 – Social-Ecological Economics, Commons and Post-Capitalist Reproduction
- Clive Spash (WU Vienna): Social Ecological Economic Foundations for Democratic Planning
- Anitra Nelson (University of Melbourne): Metamorphoses to a Post-Capitalist Community Mode of Production (online)
- Stefan Meretz & Simon Sutterlütti (Commons Institut): Commonist Planning and Production
- Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle et al (WU Vienna): Degrowth Meets COMMONISM: An Agent-Based Approach
- Moderation by Nora Dornis (WU Vienna)
Session 4 – Knowledge for Planning: Ecological Calculation and Governmentality
- Jan Groos (University of Kiel): Alternative Governmentality – Broadening the Debate about Democratic Planning (online)
- Yousaf Nishat-Botero (Bayes Business School) Planning and the Oikos of the Earth
- Simon Trembley-Pepin (Saint Paul University), Sophie Elias-Pinsonnault (Saint Paul University) & Mathieu Perron-Dufour (Université du Quebec en Outaouais): Options for Comparing Incommensurable Dimensions in Democratic Planning (online)
- Walther Zeug (UFZ) & Jakob Heyer (FSU Jena): Sustainability Assessment and Cybernetic Economic Planning: Conceptual Ideas for a Democratic Planned Economy to Satisfy Societal Needs Within Planetary Boundaries
- Moderation by Halliki Kreinin (RIFS Potsdam)