International symposium – Planning, democracy and post-capitalism

From 3 July 2024 to 5 July 2024

As part of the XIIIth congress of the Association française d’économie politique (AFEP), “Is planning possible in the face of crises?”, the Research group on democratic economic planning of the Research center on social innovation and transformations (CRITS) at Saint Paul University, is organizing the international symposium Planning, democracy and postcapitalism. The symposium aims to bring together researchers working on democratic economic planning from a post-capitalist perspective. Postcapitalist political economy is concerned with all thinking about the political and economic functioning of a society that voluntarily evolves outside the institutions of capitalism. The colloquium takes place in Montpellier, France, from July 3 to 5, 2024.

Interpretation from English to French and French to English is available for all panels.

Detailed program

Wedn. 3 July
Room 314 14:15 – 15:45

The format of democratic economic planning proposals

Samuel Decker, Planning and Transformation
Heiner Koch, Socialization as a modular form of realizing planned economy
Simon Tremblay-Pepin, Transitionner des modèles aux modules pour penser la pluralité des propositions post-capitalistes

Facilitation: Ellen Russell

Amphitheatre C319 14:00 – 15:30

The role of prices and money after capitalism (1)

Max Grünberg, Economics of Scarcity: A Mode of Productionin Search for Allocative Efficiency
Stefan Meretz, Replacing the whole capitalist stack
Jean-François Colomban, Le maintien paradoxal d’un système de prix dans la pensée d’Otto Neurath

Facilitation: Mathieu Dufour

Amphitheatre C319 16:00 – 17:30

The role of prices and money after capitalism (2)

Ferdia O’Driscoll, The Multi-Index Society: Unit of Account in Postcapitalism
Leone Castar & Alejandro Ruiz, Social Eyes and Observables: Learning to See Human Need in a Postcapitalist Society
Jakob Heyer & Walther Zeug, Sustainability Assessment and Cybernetic Planned Economy

Facilitation: Mathieu Dufour

BONSOIR Cocktail bar, 6 de la croix d'or street, Montpellier 20:00 – 23:00

Launch of the International Network for Democratic Economic Planning

Join us for an informative but still informal and festive event to celebrate the launch of the International Network of Democratic Economic Planning (INDEP). This will be an opportunity to meet other people interested in researching and promoting democratic planning. Some food will be offered, and a brief presentation of our network’s aims will be made.

Thur. 4 July
Amphitheatre C200 9:00 – 10:30

Plenary session: Decentralized planning practices and experiences: what role for democracy?

Simon Tremblay-Pepin
Géraldine Rieucau
Marta Papalardo

Amphitheatre C319 11:15 – 12:45

Democratic economic planning and respecting planetary boundaries

Sophie Elias-Pinsonnault, Intégrer la dimension écologique tout au long du processus de planification démocratique
Elena Hofferberth, Planning beyond growth: The case for economic democracy within ecological limits
Dougie Booth, Carbon constituencies and the transition towards a democratically planned economy

Facilitation: Maé Geymond

Frid. 5 July
Amphitheatre C319 9:00 – 10:30

Living in a democratically planned society

Ellen Russell, Democratic Economic Planning and the problem of Economic Expertise
Christoph Sorg, Post-capitalist reproduction: Domestic realism in the planning debate
Mathieu Dufour, Quelle fonction pour les prix dans la planification démocratique ?

Facilitation: Simon Tremblay-Pepin

Amphitheatre C319 13:45 – 15:15

Prefiguration, community economics and democratic planning

Alexandre Michaud, Imaginer les pratiques postcapitalistes à travers l’histoire de l’autogestion québécoise
Rabea Berfelde, From Socialisation to Planning and Back Again. On old and New Debates on Economic Planning and Socialisation
Fabrice Flipo, Peut-on planifier l’invention d’une société écologique? Par-delà le marché et le plan

Facilitation: Sophie Elias-Pinsonnault

The full schedule for the XIIIth AFEP Congress and all the information you need to attend is available here.