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Ecosocialism Conference 2024 London
Read more: Ecosocialism Conference 2024 LondonThe 2024 Ecosocialism Conference in London (and online) will address the ecological crisis and the global capitalist system driving it. Join leading activists, thinkers, and advocates to build a movement for sustainable, equitable change and to envision a future of social and environmental justice. The conference will cover topics like socialist planning, dismantling green colonialism,…
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Book: a vision for 2048
Read more: Book: a vision for 2048Four German authors, Kai Kuhnhenn, Anne Pinnow, Matthias Schmelzer, and Nina Treu, recently published a book in English with Mayfly Books entitled Future for All—A Vision for 2048. The book is a project of the Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie (Laboratory for New Economic Ideas), a collective think-and-do tank in Leipzig. It addresses many different questions, from…
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Article: will there be rebound effect in a planned economy?
Read more: Article: will there be rebound effect in a planned economy?In an article recently published an open access article in Futures, four scholars from the Sheffield University Management School—Andrea Genovese, Benjamin H. Lowe, Meletios Bimpizas-Pinis, and V.G. Ram—discussed how ex-ante economic planning and coordination mechanisms could help eliminate rebound effects. Here’s the abstract of the article: This paper argues that attempts to mitigate rebound effects within growth-orientated economic…
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Call for abstracts: Pasts, Presents and Futures of Communalism
Read more: Call for abstracts: Pasts, Presents and Futures of CommunalismThe research team Vive la commune! will organize an international conference in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, on January 9-10, 2025. The theme will be “Pasts, Presents, and Futures of Communalism.” They are circulating a call for abstracts with a deadline of November 10th. Here’s an excerpt from this call: In this conference, we want to gather scholars…
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IDA published new brochure: “Labor-time, Not Money”
Read more: IDA published new brochure: “Labor-time, Not Money”IDA published a new brochure, “Labor-Time, Not Money. How Companies Can Calculate with Labor-Time”.
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Tom O’Brien and Dónal Ó Coisdealbha Livestream giving update on their book
Read more: Tom O’Brien and Dónal Ó Coisdealbha Livestream giving update on their bookRecently Tom O’Brien and Dónal Ó Coisdealbha did a livestream where they gave an update on the writing process of their book. You can find the livestream here. You can find more about the book and support them in their writing process here.
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Part 2 of “From Alpha to Omega” Podcast’s discussion of the Toyota Production System and its implications for socialist planning
Read more: Part 2 of “From Alpha to Omega” Podcast’s discussion of the Toyota Production System and its implications for socialist planningPart Two of the discussion on the Toyota Production System and its implications for socialist planning, featuring Dónal Ó Coisdealbha and Tom O’Brien
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Call for Papers – Creating Another World: Alternative Organizations as Engines of Social Transformation
Read more: Call for Papers – Creating Another World: Alternative Organizations as Engines of Social TransformationA sub-theme of the 41st European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) colloquium in Athens is about Creating Another World: Alternative Organizations as Engines of Social Transformation. Papers are due January 7, 2025, 23:59 CET via the EGOS portal. Here’s an excerpt of the call for paper: [O]ur sub-theme aims to explore how alternative organizations may…
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Call for contributions – First INDEP conference: Democratic Economic Planning for the Real World
Read more: Call for contributions – First INDEP conference: Democratic Economic Planning for the Real WorldIn the face of capitalism’s striking failure to confront the contemporary challenges raised by the poly-crisis of war, ecological collapse and rising inequalities, democratic economic planning (DEP) has recently gained increasing attention, both from the academic world and from social change practitioners (rank-and-file, militants, organizers, and leaders of unions and social movements, members of political…
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Article on democratic economic/ecological planning in Organization SI on Public Value
Read more: Article on democratic economic/ecological planning in Organization SI on Public ValueAbstract:The idea of planning has reappeared as an object of interest for critical research on post-capitalist organizational futures. This article offers a critical review of the emerging scholarship on planning, with reference to historical and contemporary precursors to democratic planning. Building on this review, the article develops a critical political ecology of planning that situates…
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INDEP Organising Panels at 21st Historical Materialism Conference
Read more: INDEP Organising Panels at 21st Historical Materialism ConferenceThe 21st Historical Materialism Conference will take place November 7-10 2024 in London. INDEP Steering Group members Thomas O’Brien, Donal O’Coisdealbha, and Ferdia O’Driscoll have organised three panels on postcapitalism, namely: This year, Historical Materialism created a Post-Capitalism stream, emblematic of the increasing attention being given to questions of postcapitalism by the Left. There are…
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Episode of Auxiliary Statements Podcast on ‘The Capitalist Nature of the “Socialist” Countries’
Read more: Episode of Auxiliary Statements Podcast on ‘The Capitalist Nature of the “Socialist” Countries’Brief Description:This episode dives into value theory to explore what truly defines a society as socialist or capitalist, questioning the economic and ideological boundaries between these systems. The hosts discuss L.L. Men’s The Capitalist Nature of the “Socialist” Countries (1986). Podcast Title:The Capitalist Nature of the “Socialist” Countries | L.L. Men Podcast Name:Auxiliary Statements Language:English…
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