Talks from “Economic Planning in the Anthropocene” uploaded

The 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 Durand

Panel I — Infrastructure and Politics of the Market Order
Julia Steinberger — Climate vs. Neoliberalism: causes of inaction and the call for planning
Edward Nik-Khah — The Great Transformation of markets: Lessons from the history of market design

Panel II — The Satisfaction of Needs: Calculation and Democracy
Razmig Keucheyan — Needs, institutions, and coalitions: how would democratic ecological planning look like?
Silvia Rief — Between calculation and deliberation: Rethinking needs in planning frameworks

Panel III — The Monitoring of a Sustainable Economy
Julien Lefevre — The Role of Input-Output Analysis in Modeling Sustainability Transitions
Clément Surun — Accounting for national and corporate environmental liabilities: a steering tool towards a sustainable economy

Panel IV — Delineating Planning Capacities
Rosie Collington — State Capacity for Decarbonization: From Investable Transitions to Green Transformations
Cecilia Rikap — Big tech capabilities as planning devices

Panel V — Macrofinancial Regimes Towards a Green Transformation
Tom Krebs — Price Controls to Implement Green Transformation Policy
Jakob Hasselbalch — Green economic planning as “directed entanglement”

Panel VI — The Shaping of the Social Relationship to the Environment by the Developmental State, Past and Present
Cornel Ban — When Marx Met Schumpeter: Planning and Cleantech Dominance in China
Nelo Magalhães — The State, the territory and the infrastructure legacy