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IDA Article Discusses German Democratic Economic Planning Debates
Read more: IDA Article Discusses German Democratic Economic Planning DebatesThe IDA (Initiative Demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung/Initiative for Democratic Working Time Accounting) has published an article that links several German-language articles that which discuss the topic of democratic economic planning. A summary of the article can be found below: The debate about a socialist planned economy seems to have definitively returned. Here, we present a small, selective…
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Recording of INDEP online Talk with Janina Urban and Solveig Degen on Democratising Investment in a Financialised Economy uploaded
Read more: Recording of INDEP online Talk with Janina Urban and Solveig Degen on Democratising Investment in a Financialised Economy uploadedThe recording of our recent online talk with Janina Urban and Solveig Degen – “Who Plans the Future? Democratising Investment in a Financialised Economy” has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. This talk was held in partnership with the Centre for Social Critique at the Humboldt University Berlin. You can watch it here or…
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Website launched for Stafford Beer’s Centennial
Read more: Website launched for Stafford Beer’s CentennialA new website brings together information about the 100th anniversary of Stafford Beer’s birth, providing access to a conference, a book, and a documentary about him and his work. This anniversary is being marked by a series of conferences, initiatives, publications, and events to honor his life, work, and lasting influence. Several international partner organizations…
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Registration for Metaphorum’s 2026 Conference Now Open
Read more: Registration for Metaphorum’s 2026 Conference Now OpenRegistration is now open for Metaphorum‘s 2026 Conference, and the organizers are also accepting panel presentations, workshops, poster sessions and creative proposals. The event will be held September 17-19, and submissions should be sent before July 17. Organizational cybernetics and DEP have a long history of interdisciplinary innovation and applied historical practice. Attendees can expect…
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A New Issue of Estudios Includes a Volume on Economic Planning
Read more: A New Issue of Estudios Includes a Volume on Economic PlanningA new issue of Estudios, the journal published by the CNT (Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, an anarchist union in Spain), has been released. This issue, written in Spanish, is structured in three volumes—Revolutionary Unionism, Ecology, and Economic Planning—which can be acquired separately or together. One of these focuses on democratic economic planning and features contributions…
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Article Provides A Marxist Critique of Cybernetic Planning
Read more: Article Provides A Marxist Critique of Cybernetic PlanningIn the journal marxism & sciences, Ivan Bouchardeau of Toulouse Jean Jaurès University has published an article which argues that cybernetics and Marxism cannot be synthesised, that Project Cybersyn in Chile from 1971-1973 was a technocratic and idealist project and that in order for socialist planning today to be feasible, it must be grounded in…
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Article Argues For Incorporating Money Into Commonism
Read more: Article Argues For Incorporating Money Into CommonismIn the journal Review of Evolutionary Political Economy, Mathieu Dufour of Université du Québec en Outaouais and Simon Tremblay-Pepin of Saint Paul University have published an article that argues that the postcapitalist model of Commonism‘s lack of use of money leads to it suffering multiple economic issues and that including a form of money would…
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Ones And Tooze Podcast Analyses China’s Five-Year Economic Plans
Read more: Ones And Tooze Podcast Analyses China’s Five-Year Economic PlansThe Ones and Tooze podcast has released an episode where Adam Tooze, professor at Columbia University and Cameron Abadi, a deputy editor at Foreign Policy, discuss the history of economic planning in China from the Maoist era to the present day. Adam and Cameron then use this historical discussion to critically evaluate the 15th Five-Year…
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Recording of INDEP online Talk with Angela Espinosa “The Viable System Model as an Emancipatory Approach to Sustainable Self-Governance: Examples from Applications in Communities and Nations” uploaded
Read more: Recording of INDEP online Talk with Angela Espinosa “The Viable System Model as an Emancipatory Approach to Sustainable Self-Governance: Examples from Applications in Communities and Nations” uploadedThe recording of our recent online talk with Angela Espinosa on “The Viable System Model as an Emancipatory Approach to Sustainable Self-Governance: Examples from Applications in Communities and Nations” has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. This online talk was part of the INDEPxMetaphorum Online Talk Series for Stafford Beer’s Centennial. You can watch…
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Article Provides An Ecological Critique Of Hayek’s Knowledge Problem
Read more: Article Provides An Ecological Critique Of Hayek’s Knowledge ProblemIn the journal Globalizations, Cédric Durand of the University of Geneva has published an article that utilises an analysis of green finance and the Anthropocene to criticise Friedrich Hayek’s knowledge problem for socialist planning and outline how socialist planning could be feasible in the 21st century. A summary of the article (from the abstract) can…
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Article Examines How Green Finance Is A Form of Algorithmic Planning
Read more: Article Examines How Green Finance Is A Form of Algorithmic PlanningIn the journal Antipode, Giulia Dal Maso of Ca’Foscari University and independent researcher Alessandro Maresca have published an article that argues that their analysis of green finance demonstrates that it uses forms of algorithmic planning and that such forms could be repurposed to serve socialist ends. A summary of the article (from the abstract) can…
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INDEP’s New Organisational Partnership With the Commons-Institute
Read more: INDEP’s New Organisational Partnership With the Commons-InstituteWe are excited to announce our new organisational partnership between INDEP and the Commons-Institute in Germany. The Commons-Institute is a network of people active around commons and commoning from academic and activist backgrounds. They introduce into the different aspects of commons theory and practice, share videos and articles, organize events and summer schools and publish…
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