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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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Postdoctoral contract on democratic economic planning in Québec
Read more: Postdoctoral contract on democratic economic planning in QuébecThe research group on democratic economic planning at the Research Center on Social Innovation and Transformation (CRITS) at Saint Paul University in Ottawa is offering a postdoctoral contract. The objective is to “conduct an empirical analysis of Québec’s economic data relevant to socio-metabolic planning and identify economic and institutional actors compatible with a democratic planning…
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New Future Histories episode discusses first part of Aaron Benanav’s essay series on a multi-criterial socialist economy
Read more: New Future Histories episode discusses first 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 first part of Benanav’s “Beyond Capitalism” essay series in the New Left Review. More specifically, in this episode, Benanav lays the groundwork for his proposal of a multi-criterial socialist economy. You can watch…
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Call for Papers about Alternatives to Capitalism for 2026 SASE Conference
Read more: Call for Papers about Alternatives to Capitalism for 2026 SASE ConferenceThe Alternatives to Capitalism Network of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics has released a call for papers for the 2026 SASE conference that will be held in Bordeaux, France. They will be accepting 500-word long abstracts (plus references) and the deadline to submit will be December 16 2025. Further information about the call…
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Call for Papers: Planning for the Pluriverse/POLLEN2026
Read more: Call for Papers: Planning for the Pluriverse/POLLEN2026On the POLLEN2026 conference under the title ‘Diverse Origins, Multiple Futures: The Stories of Political Ecology’ from June 29 to July 3 2026 in Barcelona, Dominique Aresenault from the Université de Technologie de Compiègne and Simon Tremblay-Pepin from the Saint Paul University will convene a panel on democratic economic planning. For this panel, they now…
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Reflections on an event series on democratic economic planning
Read more: Reflections on an event series on democratic economic planningThe anarcho-communist group La Banda Vaga from Freiburg, Germany, hosted a series of events earlier this year to promote and discuss ideas of democratic economic planning to meet the challenges of climate change. The group hosted a total of five events with different guests such as Samia Mohammed, Walther Zeug, Heide Lutosch and Jan Groos.…
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New podcast episode on democratic planning, AI and a multicriterial economy with Aaron Benanav
Read more: New podcast episode on democratic planning, AI and a multicriterial economy with Aaron BenanavIn a recent episode of the Dissens podcast titled ‘Capitalism is broken, here’s how we overcome it’, Aaron Benanav talks about the economic crises of our times, centralisation of economic and political power and the hype around artificial intelligence. Building on those topics, he develops his own sketch of a democratically planned economy, based on…
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