We’re having a little online party to celebrate INDEP’s second anniversary! It is going to be an informal get together without an agenda, but an occasion to meet, find out what we’re all up to and celebrate our network and each other. We’re looking forward to celebrate with you! Please register here to participate.

This event will take place online via zoom and will be held in German. This event is hosted by “Emanzipation & Frieden” in collaboration with “teilbar e.V.”.   The description of the event has been translated from the event website: “The debate on democratic economic planning is experiencing a resurgence internationally. With the German-language publication […]

This event is part of the INDEPxMetaphorum Online Talk Series for Stafford Beer’s Centennial. This event will take place in English. To participate, please register here. This talk will analyse the historical development of capitalist production methods from a cybernetic and political economic lens. Tom O’Brien will discuss the implications of Fordism, modern budget management, […]

This event will take place online and in English. This will be an open-ended discussion hosted by Leone on the econophysics server with David Zachariah on his recently drafted paper, “Socialist Planning in the Era of Climate Change”, which explores the question of realizing a feasible and stable implementation of economic planning. Anyone is free […]

This online event will take place in English. To participate, please register here. Description: This event will be a relaxed, open-ended, moderated community discussion on some of the fundamental questions about democratic economic planning: – What should we plan and what should we not plan? How should the planned sector interface with the unplanned, household, […]

This online event will take place in English. To participate, please register here. Description: This event will be a relaxed, open-ended, moderated community discussion on some of the fundamental questions about democratic economic planning: – What should we plan and what should we not plan? How should the planned sector interface with the unplanned, household, […]

Every Acre, Every Factory – Ideas for a Necessary Revolution is a documentary that explores how a transition to a post-capitalist society might be conceived and organised. Drawing on experiences from the struggles of the 1970s, contemporary debates on democratic economic planning, and current workers’ struggles, the film examines different approaches to transforming the organisation […]

This online event will take place in English. It will be held in cooperation with the Initiative demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung (Initiative democratic labor-time accounting). To participate, please register here. The Boston College Labor-Time Economy Working Group (BC-LTEWG) will present an agent-based computer simulation model of a labor-time socialist economy. Their project brings together ideas drawn from […]

This talk will take place in English. In order to participate, please register here. Critique can show what is failing and why existing institutions produce inequality and ecological damage. But any democratic alternative also has to answer practical questions about the future: Who will make economic decisions? How will labour and resources be allocated? How […]

This event will take place in English. To participate, please register here. David Zachariah will present a working paper, “Socialist Planning in the Era of Climate Change”, co-authored with Tomas Härdin which explores the question of realizing a feasible and stable implementation of economic planning. We discuss how planning institutions should be built upon the […]

The conference will be held in German, but there will be live translations into English and Spanish. To participate, please register here. You can join the telegram channel of the conference for updates before and during the conference. This event is held in cooperation with the Marie Jahoda Center for International Gender Studies. You can […]

This event will take place in English. This event will be able to be attended in-person, as well as online. To attend in-person, sign up here. To attend online, sign up here. The description has been taken from the event website: The old socialist calculation debate asked whether markets or planners could allocate resources more […]