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Papers Presented At Planification Écologique: Reality And Aspiration Workshop Published
Read more: Papers Presented At Planification Écologique: Reality And Aspiration Workshop PublishedOn Thursday 19th March from 9:30AM-3PM UTC+1 , the workshop Planification Écologique: Reality and Aspiration, organized by Gabriel Kahan (Sciences Po) and supported by LIEPP’s Environmental Policies research group (project Ecological Planning in the 21st Century: Uses, Forms, Methods and Effects) and INDEP, was held at SciencesPo Salle 900 9 rue de la Chaise Paris.…
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Independent Social Research Foundation Project On Digital Democratic Economic Planning
Read more: Independent Social Research Foundation Project On Digital Democratic Economic PlanningThe Independent Social Research Foundation is funding a project that is studying the theoretical, historical and practical aspects of digital democratic economic planning and its implications for future attempts. The interdisciplinary group of researchers that are involved in the project includes Eleni Papagiannaki, Vinit Ravishankar, Dominique Arsenault, Sascha Gander and James Macumber. One of the…
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Recording of Talk by David Zachariah on Socialist Planning as Anticipatory Economic Regulation Uploaded
Read more: Recording of Talk by David Zachariah on Socialist Planning as Anticipatory Economic Regulation UploadedThe recording of our recent online Talk with David Zachariah on Socialist Planning as Anticipatory Economic Regulation has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can watch it here or below.
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Documentary Marks Centenary Of Stafford Beer’s Birth
Read more: Documentary Marks Centenary Of Stafford Beer’s BirthA documentary has been released by Boyan Angelov, with support from Metaphorum, that examines the life of management cyberneticist Stafford Beer, his theoretical and practical contributions to the development of management cybernetics and his legacy. This documentary has been released as part of 100 Years of Stafford Beer, a celebration of Beer’s life, work and…
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Article By Robin Hahnel Envisions How Pay Is Determined In A Participatory Economy
Read more: Article By Robin Hahnel Envisions How Pay Is Determined In A Participatory EconomyIn an article for The Participatory Economy Project, Robin Hahnel, who co-created the participatory economy model, discusses how decisions around pay are made under a participatory economy. A summary of the article can be found below: In capitalist economies you are evaluated, and your pay is decided by the firm’s owner, or by a personnel…
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Call for Papers for YSI Workshop on Island Economies and Ecological Planning in the Philippines
Read more: Call for Papers for YSI Workshop on Island Economies and Ecological Planning in the PhilippinesThe description of the CfP is taken from this website: The Young Scholars Initiative of the Institute for New Economic Thinking will host a two-day workshop “Islands as Laboratories: Ecological Planning and Heterodox Economic Thought for Sustainable Development in the Philippine Archipelago”. The workshop will take place at the University of the Philippines Los Baños,…
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Jan Groos starts the Future Histories Lab
Read more: Jan Groos starts the Future Histories LabRecently the host of the Podcast “Future Histories” Jan Groos has started the “Future Histories Lab“. The description of the lab is taken from the Lab’s “About Us” website section: “The Future Histories podcast (futurehistories.today; for English episodes only see: futurehistories-international.com) started in 2019 with the goal of ‘expanding our idea of the future’ by…
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Motion by the German left-wing party Die Linke Calls for Democratic Economic Planning
Read more: Motion by the German left-wing party Die Linke Calls for Democratic Economic PlanningThe parliamentary group of the German left wing party Die Linke has submitted a motion in the german parliament on fundamentally changing the economic model of Germany. In the motion they address that this model is in deep crisis and needs to be rebuilt into a sustainable economy which stops exploiting humans and nature. In…
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Podcast Interview with Jan Groos on Postcapitalism and Creative Construction
Read more: Podcast Interview with Jan Groos on Postcapitalism and Creative ConstructionThe German speaking podcast “Natürliche Ausrede” has published an interview with Jan Groos. Below a description can be found, which is taken from the episode’s website. “A conversation about an economy without the logic of profit and the political system’s inability to address acute problems, on the decline of climate movements and the “in-and-against-the-state” principle,…
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Nicolas D Villarreal Publishes Book On The Fall Of Capitalism And The Rise Of Socialism
Read more: Nicolas D Villarreal Publishes Book On The Fall Of Capitalism And The Rise Of SocialismNicolas D Villarreal, the creator of Pre-History of an Encounter on Substack, has published The Inexorable Fall, a book that argues that Karl Marx was correct in arguing that capitalism’s decline and its replacement by socialism is inexorable. A summary of the book can be found below: The culmination of the past six years of…
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David Zachariah And Tomas Härdin Publish New Version of Paper Outlining Eco-Socialist Planning Proposal
Read more: David Zachariah And Tomas Härdin Publish New Version of Paper Outlining Eco-Socialist Planning ProposalTomas Härdin and David Zachariah have published a new version of their paper proposing a form for socialist planning that has been specifically designed to respond to the social, economic, political and ecological issues that have been created by capitalist-caused climate change. This new edition of their paper includes several clarifications of their arguments and…
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Call for Papers for Conference “What is Economic Planning? Historical and Contemporary Perspectives”
Read more: Call for Papers for Conference “What is Economic Planning? Historical and Contemporary Perspectives”This description of the Call for Papers has been taken from the Call’s website: LIEPP (Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies), in partnership with the Sciences Po’s Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE) and TIERED (Transforming Interdisciplinary Education and Research for Evolving Democracies) project, is issuing a call for papers for the…
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