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New The Blockchain Socialist podcast episode discusses how finance is a form of economic planning under capitalism
Read more: New The Blockchain Socialist podcast episode discusses how finance is a form of economic planning under capitalismIn this episode of The Blockchain Socialist podcast, Dr. Christoph Sorg of the Humboldt University of Berlin is interviewed about his journal article Finance as a form of economic planning, which discusses how the financial system is one of the ways that economic planning happens under capitalism and its implications for the theory and practice…
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First part of From Alpha To Omega podcast two-parter discusses relationship between socialism and self-determination theory
Read more: First 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 the creator of the Bright Age Beyond website and Youtube channel, about what self-determination theory is and why it matters for socialism. This is the…
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Presentation on Discord about a paper outlining a cybernetic automatic economic planning model
Read more: Presentation on Discord about a paper outlining a cybernetic automatic economic planning modelIn this presentation given in the United Marxist Pact Discord server, Arjunveer Singh and Shivam Mahajan of the Center for Cybernomics Research discuss their paper that extends the Dynamic Leontief Input-Output Model to cover accurate supply changes according to demand, international trade and other matters. You can watch the presentation here. You can read the…
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Recording of INDEP online Talk with Dennis Yao uploaded
Read more: Recording of INDEP online Talk with Dennis Yao uploadedThe recording of our recent INDEP online Talk with Dennis Yao on Political, Theoretical, and Computational Models of Social Worlds has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can watch the recording here or below.
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Berlin Housing Movement Publishes a Draft Law to Socialize Real Estate Companies
Read more: Berlin Housing Movement Publishes a Draft Law to Socialize Real Estate CompaniesThe Berlin based housing campaign ‘Deutsche Wohnen & Co enteignen‘ recently published a draft law for socializing large real estate companies like Deutsche Wohnen, Vonovia and others. After a positive referendum in 2021 and years of intensive work by a large team of lawyers and activists, the group now has a detailed law that can…
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An episode about postcapitalism on a French podcast
Read more: An episode about postcapitalism on a French podcastSimon Tremblay-Pepin, a professor at Saint Paul University and a member of the research group on democratic economic planning at the CRITS, was interviewed by Frédérick Aubert on his podcast La Pelotte. The interview is conducted in French and primarily focuses on the book Construire l’économie postcapitaliste (Building a Postcapitalist Economy), but also addresses the…
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New Future Histories episode discusses second part of Aaron Benanav’s essay series on a multi-criterial socialist economy
Read more: New Future Histories episode discusses second part of Aaron Benanav’s essay series on a multi-criterial socialist economyIn this new episode of the Future Histories podcast, host Jan Groos interviews Aaron Benanav, an academic at Cornell University, about the second part of Benanav’s “Beyond Capitalism” essay series in the New Left Review. More specifically, Benanav lays out the institutional design of his proposal of a multi-criterial economy You can watch the episode…
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Do We Need A New Debate on Economic Planning? A Lecture By Samia Mohammed
Read more: Do We Need A New Debate on Economic Planning? A Lecture By Samia MohammedIn a recent lecture in Hannover, Germany, political scientist Samia Mohammed presents the history of the economic planning debate and reasons for a revival of democratic economic planning after capitalism. She also addresses blind spots in the debate such as feminist critiques or a sometimes over-simplified picture of human-nature relations. The lecture is in German…
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Recording of INDEP online Talk on “Radical Abundance. How to Win a Green Democratic Future” uploaded
Read more: Recording of INDEP online Talk on “Radical Abundance. How to Win a Green Democratic Future” uploadedThe recording of our recent online talk with Kai Heron, Keir Milburn and Bertie Russell on their new book “Radical Abundance. How to Win a Green Democratic Future” has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can watch it here or below.
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Green Planning Commission has launched
Read more: Green Planning Commission has launchedThe Green Planning Commission, a multi-year initiative to develop the theory and practice of green democratic economic planning from the think-tank Common Wealth, has launched. The Commission is run by a team of commissioners, which consists not only of researchers affiliated with Common Wealth but also other researchers whose focus is on developing green democratic…
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Recording of INDEP online Talk with CibCom uploaded
Read more: Recording of INDEP online Talk with CibCom uploadedThe recording of our recent online talk with CibCom on Cybernetics, Planning and Democracy has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can watch it here or below.
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IDA responds to Robin Hahnel’s critique of Labor-Time Accounting in new article
Read more: IDA responds to Robin Hahnel’s critique of Labor-Time Accounting in new articleIDA responds to Robin Hahnel’s May 2025 critique of labor-time calculation, argueing that it remains the cornerstone of the growing debate on democratic, decentralized socialist planning.
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