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SUMMARY:INDEP online Talk with Paul Adler - What Socialist Planning can Learn from Business Management
DESCRIPTION:This event will take place in English. \nIn order to participate\, please register here. \n  \nDescription: \nIn his work\, Paul Adler has been exploring how large capitalist firms deal with the challenges of corporate planning\, and indeed of democracy in planning\, aiming to understand what they might teach us about how socialism could deal with similar challenges (albeit at a much wider level and in the context of new relations of production). In his 2019 book\, The 99% Economy\, he reviewed four principles that he sees operative in leading firms which suggests ways of overcoming four of these challenges—centralization\, specialization\, standardization\, and incentives. In this talk\, he will review that argument and dive deeper into centralization\, and what we can learn from capitalist firms efforts to combine high levels of centralization with high(er) levels of participation. \nPaul Adler is Professor Emeritus at the Marshall School of Business\, University of Southern California. He began his education in Australia and completed his graduate studies in France. His research and teaching focus on organization theory and comparative political economy. He has published widely in academic journals\, and has edited or co-edited several volumes\, the more recent being The Firm as a Collaborative Community: Reconstructing Trust in the Knowledge Economy (2006)\, The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies: Classical Foundations (2009)\, and The Oxford Handbook of Sociology\, Social Theory and Organization Studies: Contemporary Currents (2015). He co-authored Healing Together: The Labor-Management Partnership at Kaiser Permanente (2009)\, and most recently published The 99% Economy: How Democratic Socialism can overcome the Crises of Capitalism (2019).
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/indep-online-talk-with-paul-adler-what-socialist-planning-can-learn-from-business-management/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Talk by Matthias Zwack: Attempt and Failure of a Utopia - The Self-managed Socialism in Yugoslavia
DESCRIPTION:The event will take place in German. \nThe description has been taken and translated from the event website. \n“An open society\, grassroots democracy\, and direct worker control over firms—in the midst of the Cold War\, Yugoslav communists attempted to implement something that today sounds like a distant utopia. Yugoslavia’s “socialist democracy” sought to overcome both the state and capital. The people were to decide for themselves on all matters of social life.\nFor decades\, the Yugoslav model inspired political and economic scientists\, critical thinkers\, social protests\, and reform movements on both sides of the Iron Curtain – until it collapsed in a series of bloody civil wars at the end of the 1980s.\nDid Yugoslavia fail because of the supremacy of its communist party\, which was unwilling to relinquish its power? Or did the self-management system ultimately create the causes for its own demise? Can the Yugoslav model only be evaluated in terms of its demise? Or does the focus on its failure obscure the possibilities and potential it held?\nIn a brief journey through time into this almost forgotten chapter of left-wing history\, the lecture sets out to search for clues: What can we learn from the Yugoslav experience for today’s perspectives on a better future?”
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/talk-by-matthias-zwack-attempt-and-failure-of-a-utopia-the-self-managed-socialism-in-yugoslavia/
LOCATION:translib\, Lütznerstraße 30\, Leipzig\, Sachsen\, 04227\, Germany
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SUMMARY:Seminar: "Planning and Autonomous Control: Reappraising the Cases for Economic Planning in Socialism" by Sergey Steblev
DESCRIPTION:The REAL-Postgrowth project (Post-growth – REAL – A Post-Growth Deal) hosts an online-talk on “Planning and Autonomous Control: Reappraising the Cases for Economic Planning in Socialism” with the doctoral researcher at ICTA-UAB\, Sergey Steblev as part of their monthly public seminar series. \nIf non-market socialists want to overcome commodity production\, does it mean that a socialist economy must be “planned”? What is the difference between planning and non-planning? In this talk\, I will define economic planning more precisely; show why “”the market”” is not the only alternative to planning; and discuss what and why should be planned in a socialist economic system. The essence of planning is determination of production (or investment) rates by future needs ascertained a priori. Non-market socialism does not logically presuppose planning\, because the system can be coordinated via autonomous control: economic mechanisms that can function without either a priori decided needs or commodity exchange and are based on local feedback. However\, socialism still needs to plan some production and investment\, should it be interested in three goals: the avoidance of slow\, wasteful\, and turbulent regulation; the negotiation of structural change; the pursuit of aggregate-level socio-environmental goals.  Non-market socialism can use autonomous control as its minimal basis and complement it with planning. \nSergey Steblev is a doctoral researcher at ICTA-UAB and is part of the REAL – A Post Growth Deal project. His current research examines how socialism for the twenty first century can work\, as well as conflictual dynamics of radical eco-social reforms in the context of capitalism. \nFind more information on the online-event and the link for the broadcast here.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/seminar-planning-and-autonomous-control-reappraising-the-cases-for-economic-planning-in-socialism-by-sergey-steblev/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Talk and Discussion: A Plan to Save the Future from Collaps: Half Earth Socialism
DESCRIPTION:The description is taken from the event’s website and has been translated into English. \nThe event will take place in English. \n“Troy Vettese in conversation with Dirk Baecker and Maike Weißpflug\nModeration: Alexander Karschnia \nAn important legacy of naturalist E.O. Wilson is his book “Half-Earth.” In it\, he calls on us to leave half of the globe to nature. Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass take up this call in “HALF EARTH SOCIALISM.” For them\, the only alternative to rewilding is gigantic geoengineering programs. To illustrate the danger of such domination of nature\, they read the classics of neoliberal literature against the grain. Hayek’s thesis of “agnotology\,” or unknowability\, is turned on its head: it is not markets but ecosystems that are too complex to regulate. Can this idea form the basis for ecological policy in times of impending collapse? \nEntry is free\, but requires registration. \nThe event is part of the event series Brecht-Days 2026” \n 
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/talk-and-discussion-a-plan-to-save-the-future-from-collaps-half-earth-socialism/
LOCATION:Museum für Naturkunde\, Invalidenstraße 43\, Berlin\, Berlin\, 10115\, Germany
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SUMMARY:Discussion About Moving Beyond Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Political Economy at Columbia University will be holding a discussion on how to move beyond capitalism. \nThe discussion will be held in English. \nTo participate\, please register here. \nThe description of the discussion has been taken from the event website: \n“We invite you to join the Center for Political Economy on Monday\, February 23 at 6pm for a scholarly discussion of alternative approaches to moving beyond capitalism. The discussion will be centered around Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law and Center Co-Director Katharina Pistor’s new book\, The Law of Capitalism and How to Transform It\, and recent essays in the New Left Review entitled Beyond Capitalism written by Aaron Benanav\, Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Development at Cornell University. Columbia Professors Suresh Naidu (Economics) and Jeremy Kessler (Law) will join Pistor and Benanav as discussants. \n\nEvent Contact Information: \nCenter for Political Economy\npoliticaleconomy@columbia.edu“
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/discussion-about-moving-beyond-capitalism/
LOCATION:Jerome Greene Hall\, 435 W. 116 St.\, New York\, NY 10027 Room/Area: 101\, Jerome Greene Hall\, New York City\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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SUMMARY:INDEP online Talk with Kyle Thompson and James Macumber - Lessons of Cybernetics for Democratic Economic Planning
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the INDEPxMetaphorum Online Talk Series for Stafford Beer’s Centennial. \nThis event will take place in English. \nTo participate\, please register here. \nThe polycrisis of economic inequality\, climate change\, and widespread political instability has lead to many looking for new and viable alternatives. The current political and economic order of capitalism has shown itself to be incapable of addressing these existential threats to our society. The field of DEP argues that important decisions over production\, reproduction\, consumption\, distribution\, investment – and\, indeed\, about our lives in general – should be determined consciously and collectively via democratic processes rather than by state authorities or market forces. \nThe rapid growth in interest in democratic economic planning (DEP) over the past two years has given birth to a diversity of publications\, policies\, and initiatives. However\, the discourse across continents has still remained isolated to a degree\, preventing like-minded members of the DEP community from learning from each other and from the different approaches in development. Among the avenues of investigation which has not received an in-depth treatment are the fields of cybernetics and systems theory. This talk from Kyle Thompson (General Intellect Unit) and James Macumber will present the fundamentals of cybernetics in the context of economics with reference to modern examples and contemporary research. This talks’ aim is to demonstrate cybernetics’ continued relevance for DEP.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/indep-online-talk-with-kyle-thompson-and-james-macumber-lessons-of-cybernetics-for-democratic-economic-planning/
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