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Newsletter by The New Institute about Kohei Saito’s work
Read more: Newsletter by The New Institute about Kohei Saito’s workThe New Institute has recently published a newsletter giving an overview of Kohei Saito’s work and providing some insights into Saito’s project there, where he chairs the program “Beyond Capitalism: War Economy and Economic Planning.” To quote from the newsletter: “If we want to avoid destroying the planet, he says, we must gear up for…
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David Kotz’ new book presents his vision of democratic economic planning
Read more: David Kotz’ new book presents his vision of democratic economic planningDavid Kotz, an emeritus professor from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, just published a book entitled Socialism for Today: Escaping the Cruelties of Capitalism. The book, published by Wiley, has a full chapter on what socialism should be like. According to an interview offered by the author: My view closely follows the model of socialism in…
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Slides of Walther Zeug’s INDEP talk now online
Read more: Slides of Walther Zeug’s INDEP talk now onlineWalther Zeug has shared his slides of his recent talk for INDEP on Democratic Economic Planning through Cybernetics & Holistic Accounting, the recording of which you can find here. You can have a look at the slides above or download them.
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From Alpha to Omega Podcast Episodes on Lean Production and Socialist Implications with Matt Vidal
Read more: From Alpha to Omega Podcast Episodes on Lean Production and Socialist Implications with Matt VidalThe “From Alpha to Omega” Podcast has released two episodes with Matt Vidal on his book “Management Divided: Contradictions of Labor Management“. Matt gives a detailed Marxist analysis of lean production and it’s implications for a socialist mode of producition. The Interview has been split into two parts. Part 1 can be found here, part…
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ICEA translated IDA interview on Labor Time Accounting into Spanish
Read more: ICEA translated IDA interview on Labor Time Accounting into SpanishThe ICEA (Instituto de Ciencias Económicas y de la Autogestión) has recently translated this interview (which was originally in German) by the IDA (Initiative democratic labor time accounting) into Spanish. The translation can be found here.
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New video on labour time accounting app by IDA
Read more: New video on labour time accounting app by IDAA new video explains how to use the labour time app, which allows self-managed companies to network in a planned economy without exploitation.
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Call for papers: Resurgent Reaction – Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order
Read more: Call for papers: Resurgent Reaction – Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal OrderHistorical Materialism London is opening its call for papers for its November 6th—9th conference at SOAS. This year’s theme is Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order. There is no specific postcapitalist stream, but in the past, papers and panels about postcapitalism were welcome at Historical Materialism. The deadline to submit…
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Income in a Post-Capitalist Society: Who Decides?
Read more: Income in a Post-Capitalist Society: Who Decides?An article by Jason Chrysostomou from the Participatory Economy Project on how income would be decided in a Participatory Economy. The more valuable activity in visioning post-capitalism is not on forming a fixed position on work or needs income now, but instead designing the institutional framework and processes which create the necessary conditions for citizens of the…
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An online course on maths, algorithm and planning now in portugese
Read more: An online course on maths, algorithm and planning now in portugeseCândido, a Portuguese-speaking democratic economic planning enthusiast, has translated Cibcom’s introductory course entitled Matemáticas para planificar una economía and made a video out of it. You can listen to it here:
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New article on hundred years of corporate planning
Read more: New article on hundred years of corporate planningHannah Bensussan, Cédric Durand and Cecilia Rikap published an article entitled: Hundred years of corporate planning. From industrial capitalism to intellectual monopoly capitalism through the lenses of the Harvard Business Review (1922–2021). The article is published open-access in the Socio-Economic Review. Both Durand and Rikap have published before on postcapitalist economic planning. So, even if…
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Experiment with Democratic Planning in Dissent on Mars
Read more: Experiment with Democratic Planning in Dissent on MarsMichael Hicks, an independent video game designer has developed a sci-fi life sim where you create post-capitalist societies on Mars and live in them. Dissent on Mars will be available on Steam from April 7th. One of the economic systems you can choose is democratic planning, which is heavily inspired by participatory planning, the allocation…
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Recording of INDEP online talk with Walther Zeug uploaded to Youtube
Read more: Recording of INDEP online talk with Walther Zeug uploaded to YoutubeThe recording of the INDEP online talk with Walther Zeug on Democratic Economic Planning through Cybernetics & Holistic Accounting, which was held on the 2nd of April, has been uploaded to our YouTube Channel. You can find the video via this link or below.
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