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Interview with Jan Groos on German Public Radio on Utopian Futures and Democratic Economic Planning
Read more: Interview with Jan Groos on German Public Radio on Utopian Futures and Democratic Economic PlanningThe german public broadcasting radio Deutschlandfunk Kultur recently published an interview with Jan Groos as part of their podcast series ‘Sein und Streit‘. In the interview the questions of the imagination of better futures, utopias and different models of democratic economic planning as examples of those were discussed. You can listen to the interview here…
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New Newspaper Article about Aaron Benanav’s Proposal for a multi-criterial Socialist Economy
Read more: New Newspaper Article about Aaron Benanav’s Proposal for a multi-criterial Socialist EconomyIn this new article in the german newspaper ‘nd,’ Raul Zelik writes about Aaron Benanav‘s recent proposal for a multi-criterial socialist economy and its theoretical foundations and institutional details. You can read the article here (in German). You can read Aaron Benanav’s two papers outlining his proposal for a multi-criterial socialist economy here and here.
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Second part of From Alpha To Omega podcast two-parter discusses relationship between socialism and self-determination theory
Read more: Second part of From Alpha To Omega podcast two-parter discusses relationship between socialism and self-determination theoryIn this new episode of the From Alpha To Omega podcast, host Tom O’Brien interviews Ferdia O’Driscoll, one of the co-founders of the International Network for Democratic Economic Planning and the creator of the Bright Age Beyond website and Youtube channel, about what self-determination theory is and why it matters for socialism. This is the…
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This Machine Kills Podcast Interview with Aaron Benanav on his multi-criterial socialism proposal – Part 1
Read more: This Machine Kills Podcast Interview with Aaron Benanav on his multi-criterial socialism proposal – Part 1In this new episode of the This Machine Kills podcast, co-hosts Jathan Sadowski and Edward Ongweso Jr. interview Aaron Benanav about the theoretical foundations of his proposal for a multi-criterial socialist economy. This is the first episode of a two-parter on the topic. A summary can be found below: We’re joined by Aaron Benanav to…
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New article argues for integrating post-growth economics and democratic economic planning into transformative adaptation initiatives
Read more: New article argues for integrating post-growth economics and democratic economic planning into transformative adaptation initiativesIn this article for the journal Ecological Economics, Oussama Chaabouni of the University of Girona and Richard Bärnthaler of the University of Leeds review the literature on transformative adaptation and argue that it falls short of its transformative aims, with them also arguing that integrating both post-growth economics and democratic economic planning into transformative adaptation…
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New article reviews the book Creative Construction and its implications for theorising democratic economic planning
Read more: New article reviews the book Creative Construction and its implications for theorising democratic economic planningIn this article for the Marxist journal Science and Society, David Laibman, the journal’s editor, reviews the book Creative Construction: Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. In this article, Laibman first summarises some of the book’s contents in order to entice people to read the book. Then, Laibman critically assesses some of the…
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Job Offer at Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig, Germany
Read more: Job Offer at Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig, GermanyThe working group ISAS (Integrated Sustainability Assessment of Societal Systems and Bioeconomy) at the Helmholtz-Centre for environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig/Germany is looking for a new colleague to join us on data engineering for sustainability assessment, monitoring, and alternative economic accounting systems. If you have a strong background in Python and databases with interest in…
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IDA Publishes Article on Calculating Factor of Individual Consumption
Read more: IDA Publishes Article on Calculating Factor of Individual ConsumptionThe IDA (Initiative Demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung) has published a proposed solution to calculating the payout factor or “Factor of Individual Comsumption” (FIC) calculated when there are different planning cycles in an economy. They will implement their proposed solution in their labor time accounting app. They welcome feedback, which you can send them here. You can download…
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Talks from “Economic Planning in the Anthropocene” uploaded
Read more: Talks from “Economic Planning in the Anthropocene” uploadedThe talks from the “Economic Planning in the Anthropocene – Institutional design for needs satisfaction within boundaries” conference in Geneva this September have been uploaded to a website. You can also find the slideshows of the talks linked as pdfs there. Here are the panels that were featured in the conference: Introduction – by Cédric…
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New chapter by Yousaf Nishat-Botero and Hugh Willmott on Fossil Capitalism, Corporate Governance, and Economic Planning
Read more: New chapter by Yousaf Nishat-Botero and Hugh Willmott on Fossil Capitalism, Corporate Governance, and Economic PlanningFossil Governance: Oil Companies, Climate Emergency, and the Consequences of a Complicit Architecture of Soft RegulationYousaf Nishat-Botero & Hugh Willmott If you have difficulties to access the chapter please write to Yousaf at y.nishat-botero@bham.ac.uk Abstract:Capitalism has put fossil energy at the very heart of its mode of accumulation and expansion, with catastrophic consequences for the…
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Recorded Talks of CYBERPLAN Workshop Uploaded to INDEP YouTube Channel
Read more: Recorded Talks of CYBERPLAN Workshop Uploaded to INDEP YouTube ChannelThe recorded talks of a workshop called “CYBERPLAN: Does the Economy fit into a Matrix or Tensor? Interrogating Cybernetic Planning Proposals”, which was held at the 2023 edition of the annual festival of the Gesellschaft für Informatik, have been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can find a playlist with all the uploaded talks…
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New Article by Evgeny Morozov argues for an AI-inflected socialism
Read more: New Article by Evgeny Morozov argues for an AI-inflected socialismIn this article for The Ideas Letter, Evgeny Morozov argues that recent developments in artificial intelligence necessitate a theoretical re-working of socialism so that any future socialism will actually transcend capitalism while also addressing the issues raised by AI. A Spanish version of the article has also been published in the Spanish edition of Jacobin.…
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