Ecological Unit Website Has Article On Achieving Metabolic Balance And A Simulation For A New Ecological Unit Of Account

The destructive nature of capitalism calls for a new economic system. While alternatives emphasize social justice, the issue of managing finite resources is often neglected. On the website Ecological…

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Call to Action for German Day of Socialization Initiatives

The think tank Communia has recently published a blog post sharing a call to action for a day of socialization by an alliance of multiple groups and initiatives fighting for socialization.

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Article on Defending Article 15 of German Constitution which Allows Socialization Against Political Attacks

The think tank Communia has recently published a blog post on defending article 15 of the German constitution, which allows for socialization against recent political attacks. In the blog post they…

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Article on Feminist Socialization Published

Barbara Fried and Alex Wischnewski have recently published an article on socialization from a feminist perspective in the online part of the magazine “Luxemburg”, which is published by the Rosa…

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Podcast on Socialization of Coal Industry in Germany Published

The German Podcast “Geschichte der kommenden Welten” (history of coming worlds) has published a podcast on the history of the struggle over socialization of the coal industry in Germany.

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Talk by Heide Lutosch on a Feminist Approach to the Planning Debate Uploaded

Heide Lutosch recently gave a talk in which she critiqued the dominant approaches in the debate around democratic economic planning from a feminist perspective and highlighted that they systematically...

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Second Webinar of “Reviving Central Planning – A Global South Perspective” Series uploaded

The second webinar of the “Reviving Central Planning – A Global South Perspective” series, hosted by the International Development Economics Associates Limited (IDEAs), has been uploaded to their…

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Rethinking Macroeconomic Planning in Europe

To participate, please register on the bottom of the event website. Description: In cooperation with the research project “Heterodox Planning” (Humboldt University/Einstein Foundation) Europe stands…

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INDEP online Talk with the Boston College Labor-Time Economy Working Group - Simulating a Labor-time Socialist Economy

This online event will take place in English. It will be held in cooperation with the Initiative demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung (Initiative democratic labor-time accounting). To participate…

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INDEP online Community Discussion on the Fundamentals of Democratic Economic Planning – 2nd Session

This online event will take place in English. To participate, please register here. Description: This event will be a relaxed, open-ended, moderated community discussion on some of the fundamental…

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INDEP online Community Discussion on the Fundamentals of Democratic Economic Planning - 1st Session

This online event will take place in English. To participate, please register here. Description: This event will be a relaxed, open-ended, moderated community discussion on some of the fundamental…

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Community online Discussion on the current draft of “Socialist Planning in the Era of Climate Change” Paper - Econophysics Community

This event will take place online and in English. This will be an open-ended discussion hosted by Leone on the econophysics server with David Zachariah on his recently drafted paper…

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Recording of Talk by Tom O’Brien on Variety and Planning Uploaded

The recording of our recent online Talk with Tom O’Brien on Variety and Planning has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can watch it here or below.

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Common Wealth Report Argues For Democratic Economic Planning To Coordinate Global Decarbonization

The think tank Common Wealth has published a report by Common Wealth US Programme Director Melanie Brusseler and political economist Stefan Zylinski critique the Wall Street Consensus for failing to…

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Emancipations Journal Publishes Special Issue On Economic Planning

The interdisciplinary, open-access journal Emancipations has published a special issue devoted to economic planning, featuring contributions from Simon Tremblay-Pepin, Audrey Laurin-Lamothe…

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General Intellect Unit Podcast Returns With Episode On Aaron Benanav’s Beyond Capitalism—I Essay

The podcast General Intellect Unit has ended its hiatus through releasing an episode where host Kyle Thompson and our very own James Macumber discuss the essay “Beyond Capitalism—I” by Aaron Benanav…

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Cosmonaut Article On Understanding Health Care Economies To Inform Planning Debates

Ishaan Shah writes in English for Cosmonaut Magazine about the dynamics of health care economies in relation to debates about democratic economic planning. Feel free to reach out to the author at…

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Podcast Episode on Che Guevara’s Views on Planning and the Cuban ‘Great Debate’

Radio Arbetarbildning, a Swedish documentary podcast produced by an independent Marxist workers’ educational association, has published a short episode about Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara’s views on socialist...

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Creative Construction?! Online Book Talk with Jan Groos and Christoph Sorg

This event will take place online via zoom and will be held in German. This event is hosted by “Emanzipation & Frieden” in collaboration with “teilbar e.V.”. The description of the event has been…

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IDEAS Webinar: National Planning: The Soviet Union Model

The International Development Economics Associates Ltd/IDEAS is organising a webinar series on the past, present and future of central planning. The webinars will be moderated by Farwa Sial, IDEAS’…

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IDA Publishes Response To Aníbal’s Criticism Of IDA’s Labour-Time Economy Proposal

On the website INTER-REV, Spanish council communist Aníbal critiqued the article by IDA (Initiative Demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung/Initiative for Democratic Labour-Time Accounting) entitled…

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Paper By David Zachariah And Tomas Härdin Outlines Eco-Socialist Planning Proposal

Tomas Härdin and David Zachariah have published a paper proposing a form for socialist planning that has been specifically designed to respond to the social, economic, political and ecological issues…

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INDEP online Event with Tom O’Brien - Variety and Planning

This event is part of the INDEPxMetaphorum Online Talk Series for Stafford Beer’s Centennial. This event will take place in English. To participate, please register here. This talk will analyse the…

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New Book Has Chapter On Post-Growth Planning

Earlier this year, the UPF Barcelona School of Management published the book Embracing Post-Growth: Sustainable Paths Beyond Conventional Economic Approaches, edited by Oriol Amat and Marcos Eguiguren...

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Stefan Meretz Responds to Herman Lueer’s Critique of Commonism

A couple of months ago Herman Luerr published a critical review of Stefan Meretz’ and Simon Sutterlütti’s book “Kapitalismus Aufheben” (the English version “Make Capitalism History” can be found here)...

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Discussion About Tony Smith’s “A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century”

A discussion has been sparked by Herman Lueer’s review of Tony Smith’s “A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century” Lueer and Smith. The discussion revolves around questions of the what it means to…

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Working Paper on Democratization of Investment Published

Gabriel Kahan and Daniel Seel have published a paper in the working paper series by Laboratoire interdisciplinaire d’évaluation des politiques publiques (LIEPP), which is hosted at Sciences Po in…

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First Webinar of “Reviving Central Planning - A Global South Perspective” Series uploaded

The first webinar of the “Reviving Central Planning – A Global South Perspective” series, hosted by the International Development Economics Associates Limited (IDEAs), has been uploaded to their…

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Wide-Ranging Response to Kohei Saito’s New Book in German-Speaking Media (ongoing)

Following the publication of the German translation of Kohei Saito’s new book “Am Ende des Fortschritts. Überleben in den Ruinen des Kapitalismus”, the response in German-speaking media has been very…

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Verso Blog Post Discusses the Climate Movement, Utopianism and Half-Earth Socialism

In a blog post for Verso, Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese, who co-authored the book Half-Earth Socialism, talk to Zetkin Collective researcher Tatjana Söding about the development and repression of…

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