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Two new Podcast Episodes with Paul S. Adler
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in PodcastsRead more: Two new Podcast Episodes with Paul S. AdlerThe From Alpha to Omega Podcast has recently released a two part interview with Paul S. Adler. The first episode centers on Adler’s 1990 paper “Marx, Machines, and Skill” and […]
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The Participatory Economy model and the shortcomings of economic models
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in BlogRead more: The Participatory Economy model and the shortcomings of economic modelsAn article by Anders Sandström from the Participatory Economy Project arguing for the need to bridge the sometimes considerable gaps between our preferred abstract economic models and the reality of […]
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Call for Papers: Special Issue of Emancipations on Economic Planning
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Read more: Call for Papers: Special Issue of Emancipations on Economic PlanningEmancipations, a four-year-old academic journal of critical social analysis published by Mississippi State University with an editorial board composed of prestigious scholars in the critical social sciences, has launched a […]
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Tomas Härdin responds to Robin Hahnel on Labor Time Accounting
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in BlogRead more: Tomas Härdin responds to Robin Hahnel on Labor Time AccountingOne thing that I believe Hahnel is trying to say is that disaggregation of labour power for the purposes of planning has not been sufficiently theorized. On this I agree. Cockshott has argued that planning must be carried out in as disaggregated a manner as possible. But unless I’ve missed something, Cockshott still talks only…
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Aaron Benanav proposes a multi-criterial socialist economy in New Left Review
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in ArticlesRead more: Aaron Benanav proposes a multi-criterial socialist economy in New Left ReviewAaron Benanav, a professor at Cornell University, just published the article Beyond Capitalism—1 in issue 153 of the New Left Review. The article critically evaluates visions of socialism, the Soviet […]
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Tony Smith’s new Book “A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century” published
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in BooksRead more: Tony Smith’s new Book “A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century” publishedMarxist theorist Tony Smith just published the book A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century Towards the ‘Full and Free Development of Every Individual’, at Brill. After outlining a Marxist critique […]
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New Video on the Failure of Historical Socialism
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in VideosRead more: New Video on the Failure of Historical SocialismSimon Sutterlütti has recently published a video analysing the failure of historical socialism. His fundamental critique is that it failed because it was still based on wage-labor and good were […]
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Article about Legal Evaluation on the Socialization of the Energy Sector in German Newspaper
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in NewsRead more: Article about Legal Evaluation on the Socialization of the Energy Sector in German NewspaperThe German newspaper taz has published an article reporting on the recently published legal evaluation on the possibility of socializing the energy sector. The legal evalutation was commissioned by the […]
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Wirtschaftsdemokratie.jetzt now also available in English
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in NewsRead more: Wirtschaftsdemokratie.jetzt now also available in EnglishThe website “Wirtschaftsdemokratie.jetzt” (“Economic and organisational democracy”), which contains diverse materials on economic and organisational democracy on the macro-, meso- and microscale, is now also available in English. To switch […]
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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, GermanyAt the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig we offer a position for a dedicated scientist to join the team as soon as possible to work on a research project. The project will develop and apply innovative sustainability assessment methods to explore the socio-ecological transformation of regions undergoing structural change. For this, we…
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Recording of INDEP online Presentation by the IDA uploaded to YouTube
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in NewsRead more: Recording of INDEP online Presentation by the IDA uploaded to YouTubeThe recording of the INDEP online event with the IDA on their labour time accounting app has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can find the video via […]
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Tim Platenkamp proposes a new model of democratic economic planning
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in BooksRead more: Tim Platenkamp proposes a new model of democratic economic planningTim Plantenkamp, a trade unionist, just published a book The Constitution of Socialism: A World without Capital, at Brill. The book is divided into two main sections: Diagnosis and Remedy. […]
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