An in-person colloquium in French, entitled “Planifier la transformation économique et sociale” (Planning for Social and Ecological Transformation), will be held at the University of Lausanne on Thursday April 23rd from 8:45AM-5PM UTC+2. www.indep.network/event/colloq...
How can we put green planning into practice?
Last Tuesday,
@brusselermel.bsky.social, @isabelestevez.bsky.social, @gkahan.bsky.social, Justus Henze (@communiade.bsky.social) and I had a really interesting discussion on this question.
Recording is now online!
We are excited to announce our new organisational partnership with Espaces Marx, which is part of the European network @transformeurope.bsky.social, which is also an organisational partner of INDEP. www.indep.network/indeps-new-o...
The CRITS research group on democratic economic planning is looking for prospective PhD student(s) to submit a grant proposal and, possibly, receive money to do a PhD in Canada. Apply here: www.indep.network/new-grant-to...
The @zeitoekonomie.bsky.social has posted an article by Herman Luerr critically reviewing the Commonism model developed by Simon Sutterlütti and Stefan Meretz. www.indep.network/ida-posts-cr...
The @zeitoekonomie.bsky.social has translated several of its texts on future states, socialisation, labour-time accounting, time banks and democratic economic planning into English and Spanish. www.indep.network/new-translat...
The recording of our online panel with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social has been uploaded to our YouTube channel. Featuring speakers @brusselermel.bsky.social , @isabelestevez.bsky.social, @gkahan.bsky.social, @solveigdegen.bsky.social and Justus Henze. www.indep.network/recording-of...
A colloquium will be held on Tuesday 2nd June from 2-6pm UTC+2 at Amphithéâtre Guizot – Université de la Sorbonne to discuss the Monnet Plan, how planning has operated in France for the past 80 years and its possible futures. Register here: www.indep.network/event/colloq...
The @zeitoekonomie.bsky.social has published an article announcing that their working time calculation app has been renamed so that it’s now called Workers Control. www.indep.network/idas-working...
In a letter to the website @cosmonautmag.bsky.social, Amelia Davenport responds to Lea Firmiani’s critique of the article “Modern Industry and Prospects for Socialism” by Dónal Ó Coisdealbha through outlining how cybernetics can make 21st century socialism feasible. www.indep.network/debate-conti...
The Spanish Government has published a report outlining how democratising the Spanish economy through expanding worker voice and ownership could contribute to resolving Spains's eco-economic crisis and what legislation and policies could realise this. www.indep.network/spanish-gove...
The large German newspaper @zeit.de has published an article on the revival of the debate around democratic economic planning. www.indep.network/large-german...
A video interview with @cedricdurand.bsky.social on the topic of democratic ecological planning has been published by @artefr.bsky.social. www.indep.network/video-interv...
The recording of our recent online talk with Jon Walker on “Viable Systems, Authoritarian Control, Neo-liberal Economics and the Future of our Socio-Economic-Political Approach to Governance” has been uploaded to our YouTube channel. www.indep.network/recording-of...
The Center for Popular Economics in Amherst, MA, USA, is accepting registrations for its 2026 Summer Institute. Its theme is critiquing capitalism and envisioning alternatives. It will be held from 24th June to 28th June at Hampshire College, Amherst. www.indep.network/center-for-p...
An article on socialism and artificial intelligence by @evgenymorozov.bsky.social has been translated into French by the radical green magazine @terrestres.bsky.social, with the translation including a short critique of Morozov's arguments. www.indep.network/morozovs-art...
On Wednesday 22nd April from 3PM-5PM UTC in room SFG 1030 in the Universität Bremen, @sorenmau.bsky.social will criticise anti-utopianism within Marxism and provide a Marxist defense for engaging in utopian thinking, which includes democratic economic planning. www.indep.network/event/instit...
On Tuesday 14th April from 5PM UTC+2, we and @cmmonwealth.bsky.social's Green Planning Commission are convening an online panel to explore how green democratic economic planning can be translated into policy proposals and integrated into transition strategies. www.indep.network/event/indep-...
The French journal La Pensée has published two articles by Pierre Khalifa and Hannah Bensussan on the relationship of democratic economic planning to artificial intelligence. www.indep.network/two-articles...
The @zeitoekonomie.bsky.social has published an article that discusses the newest iteration of their working time digital app and how it can be used. www.indep.network/ida-article-...
In this episode of @futurehistories.bsky.social, host Jan Groos talks to Yousaf Nishat-Botero of the University of Birmingham about how municipalist ecological planning could operate in the 21st century. www.indep.network/yousaf-nisha...
In this episode of the @futurehistories.bsky.social podcast, host Jan Groos talks to @cedricdurand.bsky.social of the University of Geneva about the history, theory and contemporary practice of ecological planning. www.indep.network/cedric-duran...
A recording of the London School of Economic’s Ralph Miliband Programme’s lecture ”Is a democratic economy possible? Lessons from history, horizons for the future” has been published on the LSE’s YouTube channel. www.indep.network/recording-of...
Economist @cedricdurand.bsky.social 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. www.indep.network/durand-and-k...
In a letter to @cosmonautmag.bsky.social, 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 to economic planning. www.indep.network/letter-to-co...
Jérôme Baschet and Laurent Jeanpierre have edited a collection of works by 80 authors in French, entitled Monde postcapitalistes/Postcapitalist Worlds. Several entries will have high interest for people working on democratic economic planning. www.indep.network/new-book-on-...
The @zeitoekonomie.bsky.social has published an article that links several German-language articles that which discuss the topic of democratic economic planning. www.indep.network/ida-article-...
The recording of our online talk in partnership with @ktbberlin.bsky.social, where Janina Urban and @solveigdegen.bsky.social discuss how investment could be democratised and socialised in a financialised capitalist economy, has been uploaded to our YouTube channel. www.indep.network/recording-of...
On Wednesday 10th June from 3PM-5PM UTC at the Kassenhalle, Forum am Domshof in the Universität Bremen, @koheisaito.bsky.social will give the Alfred-Sohn-Rethel lecture on how degrowth communism can resolve the dual global crises of climate change and fascism. www.indep.network/event/alfred...
