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Talk on unifying socialism and cybernetics
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in VideosRead more: Talk on unifying socialism and cyberneticsIn this talk for the Complex Anarchism Symposium, Tom O’Brien of the From Alpha to Omega podcast presents some research from the book The Classless Society in Motion: A New […]
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Future Histories podcast discusses positive aesthetic visions of climate-futures and democratic economic planning
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in PodcastsRead more: Future Histories podcast discusses positive aesthetic visions of climate-futures and democratic economic planningIn this episode of the Future Histories podcast, host Jan Groos interviews Anna Kornbluh, a Professor of English at University of Illinois Chicago. They talk about the prevalence of aesthetic […]
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Debunking Economics podcast discusses The People’s Republic of Walmart
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in PodcastsRead more: Debunking Economics podcast discusses The People’s Republic of WalmartIn this episode of The Debunking Economics podcast, post-Keynesian economist Steve Keen and radio broadcaster Phil Dobbie discuss the book The People’s Republic of Walmart, which argues that capitalist corporations […]
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Recordings of Talks at INDEP’s First Conference in Montreal Uploaded
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Read more: Recordings of Talks at INDEP’s First Conference in Montreal UploadedINDEP’s first conference Democratic Economic Planning for the Real World was held during SASE 2025: online on July 3rd and in person in Montréal, Québec, from July 9th to July […]
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New Paper on Municipal Ecological Economic Planning in Barcelona
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in ArticlesRead more: New Paper on Municipal Ecological Economic Planning in BarcelonaYousaf Nishat-Botero and Matt Thompson have published a new paper titled ‘Planning in nature’s metropolis: Metabolic municipalism and ecological planning in Barcelona’ in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. The […]
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An article in Jacobin promotes democratic economic planning
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in ArticlesRead more: An article in Jacobin promotes democratic economic planningHannah Bensussan, a post-doctoral researcher in political economy at the University of Sorbonne Paris Nord, published a text in Jacobin entitled Economic Planning Shouldn’t Be a Swear Word. The text highlights the importance […]
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Ida now has a new Multilingual Website
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in NewsRead more: Ida now has a new Multilingual WebsiteINDEP member IDA (Initiative for democratic labour time calculation) has launched a new website!
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New paper discusses Economic Planning Proposals in the Context of the Rise of Digital Eco-Technocracy
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in ArticlesRead more: New paper discusses Economic Planning Proposals in the Context of the Rise of Digital Eco-TechnocracyThe sociologists Philipp Staab and Christoph Sorg have published a new paper titled “The rise of digital eco- technocracy: Ecological crisis, digital innovation and legitimacy in the adaptive society” in […]
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Cooperation Jackson Livestream with Raphael Arar on Social Digital Commons and Democratic Economic Planning
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in VideosRead more: Cooperation Jackson Livestream with Raphael Arar on Social Digital Commons and Democratic Economic PlanningKali Akuno, Co-founder and Executive Director of Cooperation Jackson, a network of worker-coops in Jackson, Mississippi, has recently interviewed Raphael Arar in a livestream about Social Digital Commons and Democratic […]
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A new Handbook on Degrowth mentions economic planning
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in BooksRead more: A new Handbook on Degrowth mentions economic planningAnitra Nelson, activist-scholar affiliated with the Informal Urbanism Research Hub (InfUr-) at University of Melbourne, Australia, recently edited the Routledge Handbook of Degrowth. This collective work comprises 35 chapters, covering […]
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Two chapters on democratic economic planning by Martín Arboleda newly translated
Read more: Two chapters on democratic economic planning by Martín Arboleda newly translatedTwo chapters of the book Gobernar la utopía. Sobre planificación y el poder popular by Martín Arboleda, associate professor of the School of Sociology and Director of the Social Transformations […]
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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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