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SUMMARY:INDEP online Talk with Rüzgar Imski - Playnet - Viable Socialist Computation in the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:This event will take place in English. \nIn order to participate\, please register here. \nPlaynet.earth is a community aiming to replace the market as the mechanism that coordinates society – with a continuously updated\, computer-assisted system that plans production according to people’s desires\, the labour actually available\, the technical constraints of the tools and skills at hand\, and the ecological limits we can’t cross? \nThe socialist calculation debate of the 1920s–40s asked whether a fully detailed planned economy was computationally possible. Kantorovich\, Koopmans\, and others showed the mathematics worked; what was missing was a machine large enough to run it. Those machines now exists while Amazon\, Walmart\, and Uber already operate modified versions of those solvers at civilizational scale\, walled off and profit-captured\, solving over a limited subset of humanities supply and demand. Playnet proposes generalizing the same computational methods across all supply and demand rather than one firm’s vertical while changing the optimization objective. The talk will share the latest work of the playnet & valueflows communities as an invitation to collaboration with the INDEP community. \nYou can see the latest draft specification here.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/indep-online-talk-with-ruzgar-imski-playnet-viable-socialist-computation-in-the-21st-century/
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SUMMARY:Public Policy Workshop: Rethinking Macroeconomic Planning in Europe
DESCRIPTION:To participate\, please register on the bottom of the event website. \n  \nDescription: \nIn cooperation with the research project “Heterodox Planning” (Humboldt University/Einstein Foundation) \n\n\n\n\nEurope stands at a critical macroeconomic crossroads. As the continent grapples with the compounding pressures of structural economic crisis\, geopolitical fragmentation\, and the urgent need for unprecedented socio-ecological investment\, conventional market-driven paradigms are failing to provide viable answers. \nAs highlighted in the recent landscape report by Partners for a New Economy (P4NE)\, “Fertile Ground: Exploring Europe’s New Economy Ecosystem”\, if we are to successfully navigate this era of interlocking crises\, the field must elevate macroeconomic planning. No longer dismissed as a relic of the past\, strategic public coordination and structural steering are re-emerging as essential tools to reshape the future of European capital\, navigate fiscal rules\, and steer the green transition. This event brings together leading voices in political economy to dissect how democratic\, structural economic planning can be effectively revived and translated to viable policy solutions. \nThe Panel\nIlias Alami (Assistant Professor at the University of Cambridge\, Member of the Green Planning Comission) – will illustrate how the global rise of state-owned enterprises and sovereign wealth funds expands the scope for progressive economic intervention\, while questioning how we can push past these frameworks toward deeper systemic transformation. \nJacob Hasselbalch (Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School) will compare historical and contemporary planning models—spanning France\, Denmark\, South Korea\, and China—to show how states can deploy long-term macroeconomic steering\, indicative planning\, and strategic investment budgets to manage the green transition. \nHannah Bensussan (Political Economist and EU Economic Policy Expert; Advanced background in institutional economics) will analyze the current French institutional landscape\, critique the successes and failures of its planning ministry\, and explore how the macroeconomic proposals of La France Insoumise can be expanded for broader European policy. \nModerated by Maxine Fowé (Political Economist and journalist) \nAgenda\n\n09:00 – Welcome & Opening Remarks by the Network for Pluralist Economics\n\n\n09:15 – Flash Talks on Macroeconomic Planning\n\n\n10:15 – Open Q&A Session\n11:30 – Networking & Refreshments (until 12:30)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAfter the MacroHub workshop: Age of Planning Conference\nThe exploration of macroeconomic planning continues in the rest of the day and on October 16 with the academic conference “Age of Planning”\, which brings together empirical research on corporate and state planning in practice. More information will be sent after registration for the MacroHub.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/rethinking-macroeconomic-planning-in-europe/
LOCATION:Auditorium at the Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum\, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 1–3\, Berlin\, Berlin\, 10117\, Germany
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SUMMARY:Conference: Age of Planning?
DESCRIPTION:This event will take place in English. \nThe description and program have been taken from the event website. \nTo participate\, please register here. \n\nDescription \nIn the wake of the Global Financial Crisis\, the Covid-19 pandemic and the accelerating climate crisis\, the failure of markets to address urgent collective problems has pushed the question of economic planning back onto the academic and political agenda. While much of the debate remains focused on models of post-capitalist planning\, the “Age of Planning?” returns to the departure point of the new planning debate\, that is\, the observation that planning is already endemic in capitalism. Empirical work that engages with the concept of planning remains fragmented across three largely separate literatures: one tracing how corporations increasingly coordinate production\, supply chains and investment outside of price signals (“corporate planning”); one tracing how states are returning to industrial policy\, state ownership and green economic planning amid a new wave of state capitalism (“state planning”); and one tracing how the conscious decisions of central banks and institutional investors increasingly divorce investment decisions and funds available for them from previous market competition (“financial planning”). \n“Age of Planning” brings these three strands into direct conversation for the first time. The guiding questions: \n\nHow do we define planning in our different fields?\nIs planning making a comeback across such different fields and if yes why? How can we measure an increase or decrease of planning?\nWhat connects corporate\, state and financial planning conceptually and empirically?\nHow can we theorize these transformations in a way that also speaks to a normatively grounded\, democratic perspective on planning?\n\nFormat\nThe conference opens on the morning of 15 October with “Rethinking Macroeconomic Planning in Europe” (MacroHub)\, a public policy workshop organised by the Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik in cooperation with the research project “Heterodox Planning” (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / Einstein Foundation). From 9:00–12:00\, it will be discussed how strategic public coordination can help navigate Europe’s fiscal rules and steer the green transition. Registration and further information. \nThe academic conference continues through the afternoon of 15 October and all of 16 October\, with panels on financial planning\, digital platforms\, supply chain planning\, decarbonization\, social reproduction\, municipal planning\, state planning capacity and legitimacy\, and the broader politicization of the economy. \nThe conference will be hybrid\, combining in-person presentations with online presentations. \nThe Future Histories Lab will be media partner of the conference and record a live episode during the conference. \nBackground\nThe conference is the kick-off event for the research project “Heterodox Planning“\, and builds on a growing body of work arguing that planning is not the antithesis of capitalist market economies but an endogenous feature of them. Firms plan production and investment ex ante within their own boundaries\, states plan indirectly via markets to secure accumulation and legitimacy\, and finance increasingly mediates between the two by allocating credit on the basis of anticipated rather than realised profitability. Bringing corporate\, state and financial planning into a shared framework is the starting point for the conference’s discussions\, which then builds a foundation for further debates about how to organize planning democratically and direct it at needs within planetary boundaries – and (so far mostly lacking) how to get there. \nBoth events are supported by the Einstein Foundation Berlin\, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin\, the Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik\, and the German Network for Democratic Economic Planning\, with the Future Histories podcast as media partner. \n  \nProgram\nDay 1: October   15th 2026\n9:00am–11:30am  Policy Workshop — Rethinking Macroeconomic Planning in Europe (MacroHub) \n11:30am–1:00pm   Lunch \n1:00pm–1:45pm    Introduction and welcome – Christoph Sorg \n2:00pm–3:10pm    Panel 1 — Finance – Benjamin Braun (online) · James Jackson \n3:30pm–4:40pm    Panel 2 — Corporate Planning I: Big Tech and planning – Hannah Bensussan · Cecilia Rikap (online) \n5:00pm–6:30pm    Panel 3 — Corporate Planning II: Supply chain planning – Paul Adler (online) · Florian Butollo · Autumn Mitchell (online) · Dominik Piétron · Lea Schneidemesser \n7:00pm Dinner \nDay 2: October    16th 2026\n9:15am–9:20am      Introductory remarks – Christoph Sorg \n9:20am–10:50am    Panel 4 — Green Economic Planning – Cornel Ban (online) · Jacob Hasselbalch · Mathias Larsen (online) \n11:15am–12:45pm   Panel 5 — Communal Planning – Yousaf Nishat-Botero · Franziska Paul · Silke van Dyk \n12:45pm–2:15pm   Lunch \n2:15pm–3:15pm    Panel 6 — Planning Reproduction – Giulia Dal Maso · Irina Herb \n3:40pm–4:40pm    Panel 7 — State Planning Capacity and its Legitimization – Rosie Collington (online) · Philipp Staab \n5:00pm–6:30pm    Panel 8 — Political Capitalism / Politicization of the Economy – Ilias Alami · Dylan Riley (online) \n7:00pm Dinner \n\nFor more information\, please contact Dr. Christoph Sorg (christoph.sorg@hu-berlin.de) or Hangzhi Yu (hangzhi.yu.1@hu-berlin.de).
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/conference-age-of-planning/
LOCATION:Auditorium at the Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum\, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 1–3\, Berlin\, Berlin\, 10117\, Germany
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SUMMARY:INDEP online Talk with David Laibman - Systemic Socialism - Multilevel Democratic Iterative Coordination (MDIC)
DESCRIPTION:This event will take place in English. \nIn order to participate\, please register here. \nDescription:\nSocialism is a movement for the most revolutionary and humane values now conceivable.  But it is also a system\, with an operational core that transcends capitalism and class-antagonistic society in general.  That core ― MDIC ― unites central with local planning\, and quantitative with qualitative/political evaluation and decision-making.  A crucial relation between plan and result ― here called the Collective Morale Function ― evolves\, as socialist tech and social relations mature.  This evolution enables progressive unification of macro coordination with local incentives and participation\, thus fulfilling\, by stages\, the age-old dream of “the working class in power.” \nDavid Laibman is Prof. (Emeritus) of Economics at the City University of New York and Editor (Emeritus) of Science & Society
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/indep-online-talk-with-david-laibman-systemic-socialism-multilevel-democratic-iterative-coordination-mdic/
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