The large German newspaper “Die Zeit” has published an article on the revival of the debate around democratic economic planning. The article article touches on a variety of topics and contributions…

Green finance is widely hailed as the solution to environmental and capitalist crises, promising to address climate change and secure future returns. Yet, rather than being market-driven, it increasi...

Pelle Dragsted, member of parliament for the Danish Red-Green Alliance, Marxist thinker and author from Denmark, recently published an essay for the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation titled ‘Nordic Socialism…

In early January 2026, the Slovenian Institute for Economic Democracy published an article by Dr Tej Gonza, Dr David Ellerman, Kosta Juri, Gregor Berkopec and Tilen Božič that discusses the Employee…

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This article is part of a series of short pieces on the theme of what it would be like to live in a Participatory Economy. In market economies people are not asked to plan how much of different goods ...

The New Centre for Research and Practice is partnering with INDEP for an introductory online workshop on Democratic Economic Planning. The workshop titled ‘What is Democratic Economic Planning?

In this paper, independent Jim Farmelant argues that the views of economist Ronald Coase of his youth when he was a socialist and his early economic writings, when combined with Marxian economics…

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Environmental harms are often cast as externalities, even by those seeking to emphasize their urgency. Yet the major modern environmental statutes, written before America'

In 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 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…

Kalevi Sorsa -säätiön tänään julkaisemassa raportissa tarkastellaan Suomen luonnonsuojelun tilaa. Sen mukaan nykytoimet ovat riittämättömiä kansainvälisten ympäristövelvoitteiden saavuttamiseksi. Rapo...

It was a pleasure to join the 1st International Conference on Absolute Sustainability – “From Less Bad to Good Enough” hosted by the Centre for Absolute Sustainability at DTU Sustain. Many thanks to t...

This article is part of a series of short pieces on the theme of what it would be like to live in a Participatory Economy. This first collection of articles is about work. How do I find a job? You wil...

The International Network for Democratic Economic Planning (INDEP) held their first international conference, called Democratic Economic Planning for the Real World in Montreal in July 2025. This is a...

The Participatory Economy model is the most concrete and elaborate proposal for how an alternative non-authoritarian democratically planned economy could function presented so far. Since its first pre...

INDEP is an international network to advance a post-capitalist economic system based on democratic economic planning.

On coordinating the green transition.

At its core, the participatory economy model addresses fundamental and often evaded questions about creating more democratic and equitable economies. Co-developed by economist Robin Hahnel, who studie...

Both market economies and command-planning economies are and were poor stewards of the natural environment (to put it mildly). Theorists of market economies, for example, relegated the natural environ...

At its core, the participatory economy model addresses fundamental and often evaded questions about creating more democratic and equitable economies. Co-developed by economist Robin Hahnel, who studie...

Kuluneen vuoden tärkeä yksittäinen BIOS-uutinen oli tutkijakolmikkomme Tiedekynä-voitto. Tero Toivasen, Paavo Järvensivun ja Ville Lähteen artikkeli “Ekologisen jälleenrakennuksen haaste” ilmestyi vii...

Miten taloutta tulisi suunnitella, jotta se olisi sekä demokraattinen että ekologisesti kestävä? Parecon Finlandin lukijoille tutut teemat, kuten osallisuustalous ja demokraattinen suunnittelu, ovat s...

In the face of capitalism’s striking failure to confront the contemporary challenges raised by the poly-crisis of war, ecological collapse and rising inequalities, democratic economic planning (DEP) h...

Kim Stanley Robertson wrote an optimistic trilogy about humans living on Mars, but in 2022 Earth is way too messed up.

Tom Wetzel reviews Robin Hahnel's proposal for democratic economic planning, based on workers' councils, consumers' councils and a non-market price system.