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Paper By David Zachariah And Tomas Härdin Outlines Eco-Socialist Planning Proposal
Read more: Paper By David Zachariah And Tomas Härdin Outlines Eco-Socialist Planning ProposalTomas Härdin and David Zachariah have published a paper proposing a form for socialist planning that has been specifically designed to respond to the social, economic, political and ecological issues that have been created by capitalist-caused climate change. A summary of the paper can be found below: The case for socialism is often laid out…
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New Book Has Chapter On Post-Growth Planning
Read more: New Book Has Chapter On Post-Growth PlanningEarlier this year, the UPF Barcelona School of Management published the book Embracing Post-Growth: Sustainable Paths Beyond Conventional Economic Approaches, edited by Oriol Amat and Marcos Eguiguren. In the book, there is Chapter 5: Planning for Post-Growth, where Cornel Ban of the Copenhagen Business School, Jacob Hasselbalch of the Copenhagen Business School and Matthias Kranke…
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First Webinar of “Reviving Central Planning – A Global South Perspective” Series uploaded
Read more: First Webinar of “Reviving Central Planning – A Global South Perspective” Series uploadedThe first webinar of the “Reviving Central Planning – A Global South Perspective” series, hosted by the International Development Economics Associates Limited (IDEAs), has been uploaded to their YouTube channel. It is titled “Why revisit national planning?” and featured C. P. Chandrasekhar and Prabhat Patnaik as panelists and was moderated by Farwa Sial. You can…
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Working Paper on Democratization of Investment Published
Read more: Working Paper on Democratization of Investment PublishedGabriel Kahan and Daniel Seel have published a paper in the working paper series by Laboratoire interdisciplinaire d’évaluation des politiques publiques (LIEPP), which is hosted at Sciences Po in Paris. You can find the abstract below: “A growing number of social scientists call for financial democracy as a “non-reformist reform,” yet scholarship still relies on…
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Stefan Meretz Responds to Herman Lueer’s Critique of Commonism
Read more: Stefan Meretz Responds to Herman Lueer’s Critique of CommonismA couple of months ago Herman Lueer published a critical review of Stefan Meretz’ and Simon Sutterlütti’s book “Kapitalismus Aufheben” (the English version “Make Capitalism History” can be found here). In the review he is very critical of fundamental aspects of the core idea of the book, the decentralized model of democratic economic planning “Commonism”…
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Discussion About Tony Smith’s “A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century”
Read more: Discussion About Tony Smith’s “A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century”A discussion has been sparked by Herman Lueer’s review of Tony Smith’s “A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century”. The discussion revolves around questions of the what it means to abolish wage labor, labor-time accounting, socialist planning, and the economic foundations of an association of free and equal producers. You can find the full discussion in…
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Democratic Economic Planning Discussed At SASE 2026 Conference
Read more: Democratic Economic Planning Discussed At SASE 2026 ConferenceThe 38th Annual Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics/SASE Conference was held from Monday 22nd June to Wednesday 24th June virtually and from Wednesday 1st July to Saturday 4th July in Bordeaux. At the conference, there were multiple panels, sessions and events that discussed the theory and practice of democratic economic planning, which demonstrates how…
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Verso Blog Post Discusses the Climate Movement, Utopianism and Half-Earth Socialism
Read more: Verso Blog Post Discusses the Climate Movement, Utopianism and Half-Earth SocialismIn a blog post for Verso, Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese, who co-authored the book Half-Earth Socialism, talk to Zetkin Collective researcher Tatjana Söding about the development and repression of the climate movement, the rise of fascism and how Pendergrass and Vettese’s conception of Half-Earth Socialism is a form of scientific utopianism that seeks to…
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Wide-Ranging Response to Kohei Saito’s New Book in German-Speaking Media (ongoing)
Read more: Wide-Ranging Response to Kohei Saito’s New Book in German-Speaking Media (ongoing)Following the publication of the German translation of Kohei Saito’s new book “Am Ende des Fortschritts. Überleben in den Ruinen des Kapitalismus”, the response in German-speaking media has been very wide-ranging and is ongoing. For this reason, we are compiling this list of articles, interviews, videos, etc., which otherwise would have been individual news items.…
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Article Discusses How Public Goods Are Supplied In A Participatory Economy
Read more: Article Discusses How Public Goods Are Supplied In A Participatory EconomyOn the website of the Participatory Economy Project, one of INDEP’s partner organisations, economist and co-creator of the Participatory Economy model Robin Hahnel has published an article analysing why market economies under-supply public goods and detailing how public goods would be supplied in a participatory economy. The article can be read here.
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Op-Ed in Newspaper “Le Monde” on Economic Planning in France
Read more: Op-Ed in Newspaper “Le Monde” on Economic Planning in FranceAn Op-Ed by Antoine Jourdan, Eric Monnet and Laurent Warlouzet has recently been published in the French newspaper “Le Monde“. For the 80th anniversary of the creation of the french “Commissariat général au plan” (CGP) (General Planning Commission), they reflect on the history and and future of French economic planning. They highlight that planning will…
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Concept Paper on the Socialization of the German Healthcare Sector Published
Read more: Concept Paper on the Socialization of the German Healthcare Sector PublishedThe German think tank communia and german initiative Poliklink Syndikat have published a concept paper on the socializaton of the health care sector in Germany. Below you can read more about the paper (translated from the original German website). You can read the concept paper in German here. “A new concept paper by communia and…
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