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 […]

This event will take place in English. In order to participate, please register here. Playnet.earth is a community aiming to replace the market as the mechanism that coordinates society – with a continuously updated, computer-assisted system that plans production according to people’s desires, the labour actually available, the technical constraints of the tools and skills […]

To participate, please register on the bottom of the event website.   Description: In cooperation with the research project “Heterodox Planning” (Humboldt University/Einstein Foundation) Europe stands at a critical macroeconomic crossroads. As the continent grapples with the compounding pressures of structural economic crisis, geopolitical fragmentation, and the urgent need for unprecedented socio-ecological investment, conventional market-driven […]

This event will take place in English. The description and program have been taken from the event website. To participate, please register here. Description In the wake of the Global Financial Crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic and the accelerating climate crisis, the failure of markets to address urgent collective problems has pushed the question of economic […]

This event will take place in English. In order to participate, please register here. Description: Socialism is a movement for the most revolutionary and humane values now conceivable.  But it is also a system, with an operational core that transcends capitalism and class-antagonistic society in general.  That core ― MDIC ― unites central with local […]