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 […]

(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 […]

(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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Critics of lean production, including many Marxists, argue that it is a management system that was designed to deskill labour and intensify work. It is an inherently capitalist management system […]