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.

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 that should be resisted by workers and rejected by trade unions, the implication being that it would have no place in a socialist economy, and […]

The description is provided by the event hosts: This event will be held in Slovenian. Welcome everyone, we will do our best to translate live. The lecture and debate will take place at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, in the Physics Building, Lecture Hall F7. This lecture will focus on historical […]

This talk is part of a larger series of talks about democratic economic planning in times of the climate catastrophe, hosted by the german council-communist-anarchist group La Banda Vaga in Freiburg, Germany. They have previously published an article calling for an anti-authoritarian councilist planned economy. You can find the other talks in this series via […]