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Recording of INDEP online Retrospective on the First INDEP Conference uploaded
Read more: Recording of INDEP online Retrospective on the First INDEP Conference uploadedThe recording of the INDEP online retrospective event on our first conference has been uploaded to our YouTube channel. The recordings of the conference itself can be found here. You can find the video here or below.
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Talk on unifying socialism and cybernetics
Read 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 Theory of Socialist Economy that Tom is co-authoring with Donal Ó Coisdealbha that will be about socialist political economy and planning, where they unify the…
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Future Histories podcast discusses positive aesthetic visions of climate-futures and democratic economic planning
Read 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 immediacy and lack of vision in today’s cultural media and why we need positive pictures and narratives of the future, touching on both, climate-futures and…
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Debunking Economics podcast discusses The People’s Republic of Walmart
Read 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 like Walmart demonstrate how central planning can be realised today without the issues of the Soviet-type societies. The episode can be either listened to or…
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Recordings of Talks at INDEP’s First Conference in Montreal Uploaded
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 12th. The conference featured 14 panels and 39 presenters. INDEP’s first conference was supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research…
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New Paper on Municipal Ecological Economic Planning in Barcelona
Read 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 paper aims to illuminate and critically assess the elements of an ecological planning for metabolic sovereignty in conditions of planetary urbanisation. The article builds on…
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An article in Jacobin promotes democratic economic planning
Read 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 of debating planning while understanding it not in a purified and idealized way, but as a practice integrated in the complex intermingling of social and…
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Ida now has a new Multilingual Website
Read 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
Read 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 the European Journal of Social Theory. In this paper they also discuss proposals for democratic economic planning (especially technologically driven variants) how they fit into…
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Cooperation Jackson Livestream with Raphael Arar on Social Digital Commons and Democratic Economic Planning
Read 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 Economic Planning. The livestream was part of Cooperation Jackson’s #BuildAndFight Formula series, a multi-part edicational series. You can find other videos of the series on…
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A new Handbook on Degrowth mentions economic planning
Read 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 both theoretical issues and case studies. Even if the question of planning is not the central issue of this handbook, it is mentioned in several…
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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 Laboratory at Universidad Diego Portales in Chile, have recently been translated. Alexandra Alván and Rodrigo Ferradas have posted on the website Critical Theory Under Pressure:…
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