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.