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Open Letter By Economists Calls For Eradicating Poverty Through Post-Growth Democratic Economic Planning
Read more: Open Letter By Economists Calls For Eradicating Poverty Through Post-Growth Democratic Economic PlanningIn a letter to the Guardian, Olivier De Schutter, chair of New Economies for Eradicating Poverty, Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics, Jayati Ghosh, professor of economics at University of Massachusetts Amherst, Thomas Piketty, professor of economics at the Paris School of Economics, Kate Raworth, economist at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute and Jason…
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Hermann Lueer And Fredo Corvo Discuss Wage Struggles And Labour-Time Accounting
Read more: Hermann Lueer And Fredo Corvo Discuss Wage Struggles And Labour-Time AccountingThe communist website Leftdis has published two texts by Hermann Lueer and Fredo Corvo that discuss the relationship between wage struggles, abolishing wage labour and labour-time accounting in a communist society. You can read the two articles in English here or in German here.
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ICEA Talks About Self-Managed Markets And Democratic Planning At 20th Critical Economics Conference In Bilbao
Read more: ICEA Talks About Self-Managed Markets And Democratic Planning At 20th Critical Economics Conference In BilbaoThe ICEA (Instituto de Ciencias Económicas y de la Autogestión/Institute of Economic and Self-Management Sciences), an INDEP partner organisation, will be giving a talk on the relationship between markets, democratic economic planning and self-management at the 20th Critical Economists Conference in Bilbao from Wednesday 11th June to Thursday 12th June. A summary of what the…
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Tomas Härdin And David Zachariah Discusses Socialist Planning On The Peacemongers Podcast
Read more: Tomas Härdin And David Zachariah Discusses Socialist Planning On The Peacemongers PodcastTomas Härdin and David Zachariah recently appeared on the Swedish podcast Fredshetsarna (The Peacemongers). They talk about the letter Tomas wrote for Proletären (Only a global planned economy can solve the environmental crisis) and about an upcoming article that David and Tomas are working on. Other topics of conversation include the Soviet debate on planning,…
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Center for Cybernomics Research becomes new INDEP Partner Organization
Read more: Center for Cybernomics Research becomes new INDEP Partner OrganizationThe Center for Cybernomics Research (CCR) has recently joined INDEP as a partner organization. They are a research institute focused on cybernetics, economics, organisational theory and other related topics. You can join their discord server here. They are also affiliated with the Econophysics discord community, the Accessist International and the Cybernetic Socialism subreddit.
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Roundtable Discussion At International Economic Days 2026 Conference On Economic And Ecological Planning
Read more: Roundtable Discussion At International Economic Days 2026 Conference On Economic And Ecological PlanningOn Saturday 30th May, the economics department of the La Boétie Institute and the For the People Foundation organized the conference International Economic Days 2026. At the conference, there was a roundtable discussion on how ecological planning can be used to coordinate the transition to an ecologically sustainable society consisting of the speakers Matthias Schmelzer…
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IDA Article Discusses Syndicalism and Labour-Time Accounting
Read more: IDA Article Discusses Syndicalism and Labour-Time AccountingThe IDA (Initiative Demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung/Initiative for Democratic Working Time Accounting) has published an article on the relationship between syndicalism and the IDA’s conception of labour-time accounting in Estudious, the theoretical journal of the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist union the CNT (Confederación Nacional del Trabajo/National Confederation of Labour). A summary of the article can be found below: The…
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Article on Yakov Kronrod’s Plan for Economic Democracy in the USSR
Read more: Article on Yakov Kronrod’s Plan for Economic Democracy in the USSRJacobin recently published an article by David Mandel on Yakov Kronrod’s Plan, which was supposed to reform the Economy of the USSR. David Mandel is is Professor of political science at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Amongst his publications is “Democracy, Plan, and Market: Yakov Kronrod’s Political Economy of Socialism“. You can read the…
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Debate on the Role of Labour-Time Accounting in a Transitional Society
Read more: Debate on the Role of Labour-Time Accounting in a Transitional SocietyAn IDA talk sparked a debate on the transition to communism and labour-time accounting; contributions came from International Perspective, Fredo Corvo, and Hermann Lueer.
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A Review of the First INDEP Conference by One of Its Participants
Read more: A Review of the First INDEP Conference by One of Its ParticipantsMitchell Szczepanczyk, a member of the Participatory Economy Project (PEP), wrote a short review of the first INDEP conference held in Montréal in July 2025. Mitchell was one of the participants in the conference, where he did two presentations on participatory economy. The review presents what Mitchell found interesting at the conference and also contains…
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A Book Presenting Well-Known Democratic Economic Planning Models Translated into Portuguese
Read more: A Book Presenting Well-Known Democratic Economic Planning Models Translated into PortugueseThe book Construire l’économie postcapialiste (Building a postcapitalist economy), written in French by Audrey Laurin-Lamothe, Frédéric Legault and Simon Tremblay-Pepin, has just been translated into Portuguese by the Brazilian publisher Lutas Anticapital. The translation is entitled Construir a economia pós-capitalista and is available in print on the publisher’s website. The book presents the most well-known…
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Working Paper By Aaron Benanav And Ryan Lee Develops Microeconomic Foundations For Multidimensional Economics
Read more: Working Paper By Aaron Benanav And Ryan Lee Develops Microeconomic Foundations For Multidimensional EconomicsAaron Benanav and Ryan Lee of Cornell University have published a working paper on a microeconomic theory that could serve as the foundation for a new, multidimensional economics. More specifically, Benanav conceives of a new, multidimensional economics as being the theoretical foundation for his proposal for a multi-criterial socialism, which you can read about here,…
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