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Anibal Critiques Hermann Lueer And Fredo Corvo’s Articles On Wage Struggles And Labour-Time Accounting
Read more: Anibal Critiques Hermann Lueer And Fredo Corvo’s Articles On Wage Struggles And Labour-Time AccountingOn the website INTER-REV, Anibal has published a critique of 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 Anibal’s critique (in English and Spanish) here, while you can read Lueer and Corvo’s articles in English…
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Common Wealth Report Maps Out UK Green Planning Architecture
Read more: Common Wealth Report Maps Out UK Green Planning ArchitectureThe think-tank Common Wealth has published a report by Simone Gasperin that maps out the existing green planning institutions in Britain, outlines their issues and proposes new green planning institutions that would design and oversee the decarbonisation of Britain. You can read the report’s summary below: Green planning is emerging as the progressive policy paradigm…
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“Kurswechsel” Journal Issue on Democratic Economic Planning and Transformation
Read more: “Kurswechsel” Journal Issue on Democratic Economic Planning and Transformation“Kurswechsel” is the journal of the Advisory Council for Social, Economic, and Environmental Policy Alternatives (BEIGEWUM). It has been published since 1986 and features quarterly scholarly articles on a specific focus topic. Let’s Plan! Democratic Economic Planning—The Key to Transformation?Corporations like OMV, Spar, and Amazon are constantly planning—to maximize their profits. Owners and management decide…
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Brandon Torres’ Video Critiques Vivek Chibber’s Jacobin Article On Central Planning
Read more: Brandon Torres’ Video Critiques Vivek Chibber’s Jacobin Article On Central PlanningYouTuber Brandon Torres has released a video that critically evaluates an article by Vivek Chibber published in Jacobin that critiques central planning and argues for market socialism. In the video, Torres examines the economic history of the Soviet Union to outline the issues with Chibber’s argument and what lessons that Soviet Union has for attempts…
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Recording of Talk by Leone on Defining and Measuring Human Needs with Democratic Planning uploaded
Read more: Recording of Talk by Leone on Defining and Measuring Human Needs with Democratic Planning uploadedThe recording of our recent online Talk with Leone on defining and measuring human needs with democratic planning has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can watch it here or below.
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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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