S02E19 - David Laibman on Multilevel Democratic Iterative Coordination

What could a democratic planned economy actually look like? David Laibman has been on the forefront of thinking about this issue for more than 30 years.

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Shownotes

David Laibman (Wikipedia):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Laibman

Website of the Science & Society Journal:

https://www.scienceandsociety.com/

Laibman, David and Campbell, Al. 2022. "(En)Visioning Socialism IV: Raising the Future in Our Imaginations Before Raising It in Reality". In Science & Society, Vol. 86, No. 2. New York: Guilford Publications:

https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/siso.2022.86.2.137

Laibman, David. 2012. “Political Economy after Economics”. London/New York: Routledge:

https://www.routledge.com/Political-Economy-After-Economics-Scientific-Method-and-Radical-Imagination/Laibman/p/book/9781138803060

Laibman, David. 2002. "Democratic Coordination: Towards a Working Socialism For the New Century". In: Science & Society, Vol. 66, No. 1. New York: Guilford Publications, 116–129:

https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/siso.66.1.116.21016

 

Further Material

Pat Devine (Wiki):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Devine

Devine, P. 2002. "Participatory Planning Through Negotiated Coordination". In: Science & Society, Vol. 66, No. 1.No. 1. New York: Guilford Publications, 72-85:

https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/epdfplus/10.1521/siso.66.1.72.21001

Robin Hahnel (Wiki):

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hahnel

Hahnel, R. 2021. Democratic Economic Planning. New York: Routledge:

https://www.routledge.com/Democratic-Economic-Planning/Hahnel/p/book/9781032003320

Michael Albert (Wiki):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Albert

Albert, M. 2003: Parecon. Life After Capitalism. London/New York: Verso:

https://www.versobooks.com/books/85-parecon

Albert, M. und R. Hahnel. 1991. The Political Economy of Participatory Economics. Princeton: Princeton University Press:

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691003849/the-political-economy-of-participatory-economics

Albert, M. und R. Hahnel. 2002. "In Defense of Participatory Economics". In: Science & Society, Vol. 66, No. 1. New York: Guilford Publications, 7–21:

https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/pdf/10.1521/siso.66.1.7.21015

Homepage of Al Campbell:

https://content.csbs.utah.edu/~al/selectedarticles.htm

Campbell, A. 2002. "Democratic Planned Socialism: Feasible Economic Procedures". In: Science & Society, Vol. 66, No. 1. New York: Guilford Publications, 29–42:

https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/siso.66.1.29.21009

Paul Cockshott (Wiki):

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Cockshott

Allin Cottrell (Wiki):

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allin_Cottrell

Cockshott, P. und A. Cottrell. 2002. "The Relation Between Economic and Political Instances in the Communist Mode of Production". In: Science & Society, Vol. 66, No. 1. New York: Guilford Publications, 50–64:

https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/siso.66.1.50.21014

Cockshott, P. und A. Cottrell. 1993. Towards a New Socialism. Nottingham: Russell Press. (Book as PDF):

http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/new_socialism.pdf

Marx, Karl, and Engels, Friedrich. 1848. "The communist manifesto." Marx/Engels Selected Works, Vol. One, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1969, pp. 98-137. (Open Access):

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Manifesto.pdf

Engels, Friedrich. 1872. „On Authority“. Marx-Engels Reader, New York: W. W. Norton and Co., second edition, 1978 (first edition, 1972), pp 730-733. (Open Access):

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/10/authority.htm

Marx, Karl. 1887. "Capital Volume I". marxists.org:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Capital-Volume-I.pdf

Marx. Karl. 1878. "Capital Volume II". marxists.org:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1885-c2/index.htm

Free online courses by David Harvey "Reading Marx's Capital":

http://davidharvey.org/reading-capital/

John Maynard Keynes (Wiki):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes

Friedrich August von Hayek (Wiki):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek

Hayek, F. A. 2011 [1945]. “The Use of Knowledge in Society”. Mises Daily Articles (Open Access):

https://mises.org/library/use-knowledge-society

Karl Mannheim (Wiki):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Mannheim

1965 Soviet economic reform (Liberman Reform) (Wiki):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965_Soviet_economic_reform

Weber, Isabella M. 2021. “How China escaped shock therapy: The market reform debate.” Routledge:

https://www.routledge.com/How-China-Escaped-Shock-Therapy-The-Market-Reform-Debate/Weber/p/book/9781032008493

 

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(German) S01E38 | Ulrike Herrmann zu kapitalistischer Planwirtschaft:

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