The Vanguard Method is a mangement and workplace design method for service organisations  to help them move away from a “command and control” to a systems approach. In democratic economic […]

On the 4th March, 7pm CET at the “Aquarium am Südblock” in Berlin there will be a book launch event for “Creative Construction – Democratic Planning in the 21st Century”. […]

(Description copied from the event’s website here) To register, please sign up here Moderated by Friederike Karla Hildebrandt from communia Co-organized with Christoph Sorg (HU Berlin) and Nils Rochowicz (TU […]

This description is taken from the website of the Rosa-Luxemburg Foundation: “We are excited to host a LIVE episode recording of the Future Histories Podcast with Jan Groos featuring Prof. […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]