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Durand and Keucheyan’s Book on Ecological Planning Translated in German
Read more: Durand and Keucheyan’s Book on Ecological Planning Translated in GermanEconomist Cedric Durand and sociologist Razmig Keucheyan got their book “Comment bifurquer: les principes de la planification écologique” (Switching gears: The principles of ecological planning) translated into German under the title “Das Prinzip Verzweigung – Über ökologische Planung in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft” and published by Dietz Berlin. The book is centred on ecological planning and…
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Letter To Cosmonaut Critiques Article “Modern Industry and the Prospects for Socialism”
Read more: Letter To Cosmonaut Critiques Article “Modern Industry and the Prospects for Socialism”In a letter to the website Cosmonaut, Lea Firmiani critiques the article “Modern Industry and Prospects for Socialism” by Dónal Ó Coisdealbha by arguing that there are major problems with scaling forms of cybernetic management such as the Toyota Production System to large-scale economic planning. You can read Dónal’s article here, while you can read…
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New Book on Postcapitalist Worlds
Read more: New Book on Postcapitalist WorldsJérôme Baschet and Laurent Jeanpierre have edited a collection of works by 80 authors in French, entitled Monde postcapitalistes (Postcapitalist Worlds), published by La Découverte. The book is massive, just over 900 pages, and is organized into twelve sections divided into many short entries. Some entries will have high interest for people working on democratic…
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IDA Article Discusses German Democratic Economic Planning Debates
Read more: IDA Article Discusses German Democratic Economic Planning DebatesThe IDA (Initiative Demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung/Initiative for Democratic Working Time Accounting) has published an article that links several German-language articles that which discuss the topic of democratic economic planning. A summary of the article can be found below: The debate about a socialist planned economy seems to have definitively returned. Here, we present a small, selective…
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Recording of INDEP online Talk with Janina Urban and Solveig Degen on Democratising Investment in a Financialised Economy uploaded
Read more: Recording of INDEP online Talk with Janina Urban and Solveig Degen on Democratising Investment in a Financialised Economy uploadedThe recording of our recent online talk with Janina Urban and Solveig Degen – “Who Plans the Future? Democratising Investment in a Financialised Economy” has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. This talk was held in partnership with the Centre for Social Critique at the Humboldt University Berlin. You can watch it here or…
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Website launched for Stafford Beer’s Centennial
Read more: Website launched for Stafford Beer’s CentennialA new website brings together information about the 100th anniversary of Stafford Beer’s birth, providing access to a conference, a book, and a documentary about him and his work. This anniversary is being marked by a series of conferences, initiatives, publications, and events to honor his life, work, and lasting influence. Several international partner organizations…
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Registration for Metaphorum’s 2026 Conference Now Open
Read more: Registration for Metaphorum’s 2026 Conference Now OpenRegistration is now open for Metaphorum‘s 2026 Conference, and the organizers are also accepting panel presentations, workshops, poster sessions and creative proposals. The event will be held September 17-19, and submissions should be sent before July 17. Organizational cybernetics and DEP have a long history of interdisciplinary innovation and applied historical practice. Attendees can expect…
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A New Issue of Estudios Includes a Volume on Economic Planning
Read more: A New Issue of Estudios Includes a Volume on Economic PlanningA new issue of Estudios, the journal published by the CNT (Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, an anarchist union in Spain), has been released. This issue, written in Spanish, is structured in three volumes—Revolutionary Unionism, Ecology, and Economic Planning—which can be acquired separately or together. One of these focuses on democratic economic planning and features contributions…
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Article Provides A Marxist Critique of Cybernetic Planning
Read more: Article Provides A Marxist Critique of Cybernetic PlanningIn the journal marxism & sciences, Ivan Bouchardeau of Toulouse Jean Jaurès University has published an article which argues that cybernetics and Marxism cannot be synthesised, that Project Cybersyn in Chile from 1971-1973 was a technocratic and idealist project and that in order for socialist planning today to be feasible, it must be grounded in…
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Article Argues For Incorporating Money Into Commonism
Read more: Article Argues For Incorporating Money Into CommonismIn the journal Review of Evolutionary Political Economy, Mathieu Dufour of Université du Québec en Outaouais and Simon Tremblay-Pepin of Saint Paul University have published an article that argues that the postcapitalist model of Commonism‘s lack of use of money leads to it suffering multiple economic issues and that including a form of money would…
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Ones And Tooze Podcast Analyses China’s Five-Year Economic Plans
Read more: Ones And Tooze Podcast Analyses China’s Five-Year Economic PlansThe Ones and Tooze podcast has released an episode where Adam Tooze, professor at Columbia University and Cameron Abadi, a deputy editor at Foreign Policy, discuss the history of economic planning in China from the Maoist era to the present day. Adam and Cameron then use this historical discussion to critically evaluate the 15th Five-Year…
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Recording of INDEP online Talk with Angela Espinosa “The Viable System Model as an Emancipatory Approach to Sustainable Self-Governance: Examples from Applications in Communities and Nations” uploaded
Read more: Recording of INDEP online Talk with Angela Espinosa “The Viable System Model as an Emancipatory Approach to Sustainable Self-Governance: Examples from Applications in Communities and Nations” uploadedThe recording of our recent online talk with Angela Espinosa on “The Viable System Model as an Emancipatory Approach to Sustainable Self-Governance: Examples from Applications in Communities and Nations” has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. This online talk was part of the INDEPxMetaphorum Online Talk Series for Stafford Beer’s Centennial. You can watch…
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