In this talk Simon Hannah will give an overview of his recently published book “Reclaiming the Future. A Beginner’s Guide to Planning the Economy”. The book aims to introduce a general audience to the ideas of and necessity for ecosocialism and democratic economic planning for combatting the unfolding climate catastrophe. We will also discuss the […]

After gaining an overview of various theories on democratic planned economies last year, this year we want to delve deeper into the topic of economic planning with labor time accounting. To this end, we will start with an intro to working time accounting at this meeting. After that, we will work more in the sense […]

Please note that this is a closed event. In the face of growing multiple crises, especially the climate crisis, it is becoming increasingly clear that the economies and societies of the Global North must not only be fundamentally restructured, but in many areas deconstructed. This implies not only overcoming capitalist structures and practices and a […]

Prof. Robin Hahnel is Professor Emeritus of economics at American University and has spent much of his career developing a “Participatory Economy” (also known as “Participatory Economics” or “Parecon”) as an alternative socioeconomic model to capitalism. The model of a Participatory Economy is based around democratic planning between federations of self-managing workers and consumers’ councils. In his […]

Every month the IDA (Initative demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung – “Initative democratic labor time calculation”) is having an open pub meetup in the pub “Kleinod” in Neukoelln, Berlin. This is an informal gathering to get to know each other and discuss a bit.

Debates on democratic economic planning have hitherto revolved mainly around coherent, abstract models. These all-in-one proposals compartmentalize discussions in technical jargon and hide the political and strategic debates that lie behind them. Sophie Elias Pinsonnault and Simon Tremblay-Pepin propose to bring the field to think about democratic planning through a modular approach. Conceiving post-capitalist proposals […]

This course is taught by the ICEA (Instituto de Ciencias Econónimcas y de la Autogestión). Course Summary This course, organized by UNED (National Distance Education University, a public university in Spain specializing in online and distance education), takes a critical and multidisciplinary approach to contemporary socio-economic and ecological challenges, exploring alternative models of economic planning […]

Amid the escalating social-ecological crisis, which exposes the systemic shortcomings of our current economic models, we must reconsider systemic alternatives such as democratic economic planning (DEP). In our model, planning—understood as the long-term organizational anticipation of actions—operates on multiple levels: strategic central coordination, scientific societal accounting, and autonomous local coordination and production. We advocate for […]

(The description has been translated from German): While care work often receives little attention in economic contexts, this has slowly changed as a result of feminist economic criticism. However, it is still not a self-evident part of economic debates. Nevertheless, current demands for socialization often regard care work as an important component of these demands. […]

(Description copied from the event website): Yvonne Rydin will be presenting her new book “Planning without Growth”. Yvonne Rydin is Professor of Planning, Environment and Public Policy at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London.”Planning without Growth” makes a major contribution to the broader debates on growth and planning, using the built and natural environments […]

Attac Munich holds a monthly open meeting event that gives space to discuss events and hapennings of the month. This one will focus on the Attac conference “Paths towards Economic Democracy”, which was held on the 22nd of March in Munich. Guests included Alex Demirovic, Sabine Nuss, Aline Blankertz, Christoph Sorg, Emma Dowling and Michael […]

The IDA (Initiative democratic labor-time calculation) will give a public talk for Die Linke Neukölln (a local Berlin subdivision of the german party “Die Linke”) about labor time calculation as a possible basis for a decentral self-organized planned economy. After the talk there will be a discussion.