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Richard Westra’s Book on Eco-Socialist Democratic Economic Planning Has Been Published
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in BooksRead more: Richard Westra’s Book on Eco-Socialist Democratic Economic Planning Has Been PublishedRichard Westra, a Professor at the University of Opole, published in August 2025 the book “Political Economy of Eco-sustainable Alternatives Progressive and Equitable Futures” as part of the book series […]
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Call for Papers and Activists Proposals: Capitalism Moving Beyond Neoliberalism – Crises, Changes, and What Comes Next
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Read more: Call for Papers and Activists Proposals: Capitalism Moving Beyond Neoliberalism – Crises, Changes, and What Comes NextThe International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPE) is organizing its 16th international conference, to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, from Wednesday, 9 September, to Saturday, 12 September 2026. Their […]
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Call for Papers for Workshop on Postcapitalism in Pisa, Italy
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Read more: Call for Papers for Workshop on Postcapitalism in Pisa, ItalyThe States and Markets Working Group of the Young Scholars Initiative, which is an initiative of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, is organising a workshop at the Sant’Anna School […]
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Interview with Jan Groos on German Public Radio on Utopian Futures and Democratic Economic Planning
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in PodcastsRead more: Interview with Jan Groos on German Public Radio on Utopian Futures and Democratic Economic PlanningThe german public broadcasting radio Deutschlandfunk Kultur recently published an interview with Jan Groos as part of their podcast series ‘Sein und Streit‘. In the interview the questions of the […]
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New Newspaper Article about Aaron Benanav’s Proposal for a multi-criterial Socialist Economy
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in ArticlesRead more: New Newspaper Article about Aaron Benanav’s Proposal for a multi-criterial Socialist EconomyIn this new article in the german newspaper ‘nd,’ Raul Zelik writes about Aaron Benanav‘s recent proposal for a multi-criterial socialist economy and its theoretical foundations and institutional details. You […]
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Second part of From Alpha To Omega podcast two-parter discusses relationship between socialism and self-determination theory
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in PodcastsRead more: Second part of From Alpha To Omega podcast two-parter discusses relationship between socialism and self-determination theoryIn this new episode of the From Alpha To Omega podcast, host Tom O’Brien interviews Ferdia O’Driscoll, one of the co-founders of the International Network for Democratic Economic Planning and […]
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This Machine Kills Podcast Interview with Aaron Benanav on his multi-criterial socialism proposal – Part 1
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in PodcastsRead more: This Machine Kills Podcast Interview with Aaron Benanav on his multi-criterial socialism proposal – Part 1In this new episode of the This Machine Kills podcast, co-hosts Jathan Sadowski and Edward Ongweso Jr. interview Aaron Benanav about the theoretical foundations of his proposal for a multi-criterial […]
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New article argues for integrating post-growth economics and democratic economic planning into transformative adaptation initiatives
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in ArticlesRead more: New article argues for integrating post-growth economics and democratic economic planning into transformative adaptation initiativesIn this article for the journal Ecological Economics, Oussama Chaabouni of the University of Girona and Richard Bärnthaler of the University of Leeds review the literature on transformative adaptation and […]
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New article reviews the book Creative Construction and its implications for theorising democratic economic planning
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in ArticlesRead more: New article reviews the book Creative Construction and its implications for theorising democratic economic planningIn this article for the Marxist journal Science and Society, David Laibman, the journal’s editor, reviews the book Creative Construction: Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. In this […]
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Job Offer at Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig, Germany
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in JobsRead more: Job Offer at Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig, GermanyThe working group ISAS (Integrated Sustainability Assessment of Societal Systems and Bioeconomy) at the Helmholtz-Centre for environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig/Germany is looking for a new colleague to join us […]
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IDA Publishes Article on Calculating Factor of Individual Consumption
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in ArticlesRead more: IDA Publishes Article on Calculating Factor of Individual ConsumptionThe IDA (Initiative Demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung) has published a proposed solution to calculating the payout factor or “Factor of Individual Comsumption” (FIC) calculated when there are different planning cycles in an […]
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Talks from “Economic Planning in the Anthropocene” uploaded
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in VideosRead more: Talks from “Economic Planning in the Anthropocene” uploadedThe talks from the “Economic Planning in the Anthropocene – Institutional design for needs satisfaction within boundaries” conference in Geneva this September have been uploaded to a website. You can […]
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