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New interview with IDA about Labour Time Calculation in german newspaper “nd”
Read more: New interview with IDA about Labour Time Calculation in german newspaper “nd”The interview with the IDA in nd discusses the labor-time calculation model, which replaces money with labor-time for economic planning, equality, and addressing care and environmental issues, and also introduces the developed labor-time app.
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Talk on the role of banks and finance for democratic economic planning
Read more: Talk on the role of banks and finance for democratic economic planningOn the 18th of December Solveig Degen and Walther Zeug gave a talk on the role of “Banks in the democratic economic planning debate“. This talk was held during a workshop on “Banks and Post-Growth”, hosted by the Center for Sustainable Econonic and Corporate Policy (ZNWU). The recording of the talk (including slides) can be…
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Is anticipation the new codename for planning?
Read more: Is anticipation the new codename for planning?Roland Kulke from transform! europe published a short logbook entry on the CRITS webpage entitled: “Anticipation of Change” – a new discourse for democratic economic planning. Here’s an excerpt from the intro of his entry: [T]he term “anticipation,” which has become increasingly common in Brussels in recent months, especially in trade union circles. The term…
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Engineers produce a proposal for industrial planning in France
Read more: Engineers produce a proposal for industrial planning in FrancePolytechnique X-Alternative, a group of former students from an elite French school of engineering, and Intérêt général, a think tank consisting of civil servants, academics, and social movement workers, have published the first of two documents about how France could plan its industrial development. The document, written in French, explains why the country’s industrial policy does not meet…
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Call for papers: Connected histories of economic planning in Southern Europe 1945-1989 – Lisbon, June 17-18, 2025
Read more: Call for papers: Connected histories of economic planning in Southern Europe 1945-1989 – Lisbon, June 17-18, 2025Ricardo Noronha, a professor at the Instituto de História Contemporânea at NOVA FSCH, is circulating the following call for papers for an event in Lisbon on June 17-18, 2025. Here is the call for papers: The impact of the 2007-2008 financial crisis, along with the remarkable economic growth of countries from East Asia, have sparked a renewed interest in…
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An article on planning and decarbonisation in New Political Economy
Read more: An article on planning and decarbonisation in New Political EconomyNew Political Economy, one of the most-read journals in political economy, has published an open-access article written in English and entitled Green economic planning for rapid decarbonisation. The article was written by two professors at the Copenhagen Business School, Cornel Ban and Jacob Hasselbalch. The article proposed a new research agenda centred on economic planning…
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PROKLA Review by the IDA – On the Planning Debate
Read more: PROKLA Review by the IDA – On the Planning DebateIDA reviews the latest PROKLA issue on democratic planning, focusing on labor time calculation and key debates on socialization and planning.
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Christoph Sorg Interview for Dissens Podcast on democratic economic planning
Read more: Christoph Sorg Interview for Dissens Podcast on democratic economic planningRecently an episode of the german speaking Dissens Podcast has been released, featuring an interview with researcher Christoph Sorg. This episode is the introduction to a series on economic planning that the Dissens Podcast will release over the coming months. You can find the episode here on the Podcast website or here on Spotify.
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Program of the Ecosocialism Conference 2024 London published
Read more: Program of the Ecosocialism Conference 2024 London publishedThe full program of the Ecosocialism Conference 2024 in London has been published. You can find it here. It has also been added to the event entry for the conference on our website, where you can find all the additional information on the conference.
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Paper published using AI to construct an alternative history of Cybersyn in the present
Read more: Paper published using AI to construct an alternative history of Cybersyn in the presentAbstract:Neoliberalism has become orthodoxy in the present, erasing competing paradigms and alternative imaginings. Chile’s radical Cybersyn project from 1971 to 1973 offers a departure point for an alternative path, albeit one that was abruptly and violently extinguished. We revisit this moment by fine-tuning AI language models on the words and writing of Salvador Allende, the…
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Introduction to Special Issue of “Competition & Change” on “Rethinking Economic Planning” out now
Read more: Introduction to Special Issue of “Competition & Change” on “Rethinking Economic Planning” out nowThe introduction to the special issue on “Rethinking Economic Planning” of the journal “Competition & Change” has recently been published. The introduction was authored by Christoph Sorg and Jan Groos, who also edited the issue. The articles of the issue have already been published online, almost all of them are open access. A print-issue is…
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Paper on the Similarities and Differences between Capitalist and Socialist forms of Planning
Read more: Paper on the Similarities and Differences between Capitalist and Socialist forms of PlanningA new paper by Tiago Camarinha Lopes on the similarities and differences of capitalist and socialist forms of economic planning has been released. It is open access and you can find it here. Abstract:The paper departs from a broad definition of economic planning and presents a simple formalization of the law of value to develop…
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