Mathilde Viennot, an economist working at the Haut-Commissariat à la stratégie et au plan and co-founder of a think tank called the Institut Avant-Garde, just published a book entitled La planificaton écologique (Ecological planning). The book is published in the famous collection Repères of the La Découverte composed of short and accessible introductory books on various subjects.
Ecological planning is the phrase the left-wing party La France Insoumise has popularized to present its vision of democratic economic planning within planetary boundaries.
Here’s a translation of how the publisher presents the book:
Ecological planning in France today is embodied by several secretariats, a strategy, decrees and laws. Why has this form of state intervention returned to the forefront? The collective investments required for the transition, the societal upheavals it entails, the organisational and institutional transformations, and the timing of public action in the face of climate change and the collapse of biodiversity all argue for a return to favour for the planning tool. However, this is not ‘old-fashioned’ planning. Breaking with the current trajectory of our economic and social system, this new planning must reinvent a vision of progress, constantly adapt to a rapidly changing world, and serve a political agenda. This book presents the theoretical foundations, lessons from past experiences, and economic debates in order to draw conclusions about how to implement this ecological planning.
The full book is available here: https://www.editionsladecouverte.fr/la_planification_ecologique-9782348084294