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We Only Want the Earth

How do we protect our natural world and transition to net-zero carbon, and at the same time, transition to a more just post-capitalist society?

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Replying to Reviewers Part Two

A few weeks ago I published a Reply to Reviewers (of the book No Bosses), Part One. Here is Part Two which addresses six more reviews

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CJP Interviews MA: We Need an Economy Without Bosses and Managers

Participatory Economics Is How

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Participatory Economics: What, Why, How

There may be one thing in the world that most of humanity agrees on. When considering the state of present-day institutions of economy, polity, community, and kinship relations, people broadly agree...

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Clarifying the “Edges” of Participatory Economics

Participatory economy promises classless post capitalist production, consumption, and allocation. Participatory economy promises solidarity, diversity, equity, self-management, sustainability,...

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No Bosses: A New Economy for a Better World (2/3)

How would remuneration and the allocation of goods and services look like in a post-capitalist participatory economic system? In this second part of our discussion with Michael Albert, the author of...

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No Bosses: A New Economy for a Better World (pt 3/3)

Michael Albert responds to some common objections and concerns that Greg Wilpert raises about his vision for a participatory economy, such as how to avoid the spontaneous formation of black markets,...

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No Bosses: A New Economy for a Better World

Long-time activist and author Michael Albert outlines his vision for a post-capitalist and classless economic system, known as participatory economics and based on his most recent book, No Bosses (Zer0...

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No Bosses, by Michael Albert – Radical Reviewer

Chapters: Intro – 0:00 Ch 1 Values for a Better World – 1:58 Ch 2 Who Owns What? – 8:40 Ch 3 Who Decides What? – 10:06 Ch 4 Who Does What? – 11:52 Ch 5 Who Earns What? – 15:36 Ch 6 Who Likes Markets...

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From Russia with Vision: My Journey to Parecon

My luck would have me born in Russia in what they call ‘roaring 90s’ (a period of time defined by high criminality and capital accumulation and, consequently, criminal dispossession) in quite poor...

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Briefly Summarizing Post-Capitalist Vision

For growing numbers of people who already reject capitalist economics for themselves and for others, the question arises, okay, what next? The essence of participatory economics, one proposed answer to...

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When Markets Cease to Control Human Economic Life

Our most important contribution is to have demonstrated concretely how to reconcile democratic planning with worker and consumer autonomy. We believe this was the Achilles’ heel of socialism during the...

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A Participatory Economy

A Participatory Economy is written for people who desire an equitable, ecological economy, but want to know what an alternative to capitalism could look like. It presents a fascinating, new alternative...

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PMC or Coordinator Class Between Labor and Capital?

I remember an interview I once did, back about five years, for a British outlet and its first, opening question, went like this: “Since Occupy, said the interviewer, it has become fashionable for...

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Economic Vision for Everyone

An economy is a system of production and consumption activities connected via allocation mechanisms. Simply, it is how people produce items and services that other people later consume. Economies are...

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Pareconish Intellectual Agendas

The underlying theme of this essay is that new ideas have intellectual value largely in proportion to their impact on further new ideas. Does a new idea open new doors that matter, or does it lead...

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A Post Capitalism Worth Winning

Michael Albert is interviewed by Matic Primc (first posted by Dialogi) As crises around the world threaten ultimate calamity, what can we do? Where can we hope to arrive? Is there a post capitalism...

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That’s Another Fine Mess You Got Us Into: We Cannot Leave Energy to the Mercy...

Without a hairs’ breadth in between, the world lurched from a global pandemic into a cost of living crisis and the worst energy crisis since the 1970s. But let us be precise. We are not in an energy...

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The Economic Choice Beyond Capitalism and Communism

Originally published on 19 Jan 2013. Robin Hahnel is interviewed by PopulistDialogues. He talks about his new book, Of the People, By the People, The Case for a Participatory Economy. Excerpt:...

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A Radical President?! Pandemonium!

Consider the potential of certain progressives winning high office in the U.S. Beyond their being much better than who they defeat, would they turn out to be allies of corporate continuity? Would they...

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Coordinatorism vs Managerialism

Introduction  This paper begins with a brief presentation of participatory economics. The presentation focuses on the class aspect of the model. It outlines the thinking behind Albert and Hahnel’s...

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Bringing Together Economic Visions

We can all list many perspectives that propose different post capitalist economic aims. Must we see each perspective as a contender against the rest? What if they have compatible aims? Could we try to...

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Housing in a Participatory Economy

Housing is a very special type of good. It is essential for society since everybody needs a place to live and it consists of buildings that will stand for a very long time, often hundreds of years....

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A Socialist Economy without Numbers?

Can a post-Capitalist socialist Economy exist without numbers? There are those who think it can. In this episode Mitchell, Robin and Antti are joined by accountant Anders Sandström (Author of Anarchist...

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Participatory Differences

[The following is an edited transcript of the podcast RevolutionZ’s 230th episode. It is from RevolutionZ’s unscripted Ruminations series, but it is also about something I’m very familiar with because...

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Questioning the Necessity of Balanced Job Complexes

Introduction  For those of us who are interested in organising for an economy that values self-management, cooperation and solidarity; a fair criteria for remuneration, that fosters diversity and...

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Parecon Without Jobs Balanced for Empowerment?

An advocate of participatory economics, Mark Evans, has proposed that to attain a self-managing, equitable, classless, participatory economy we don’t need to balance jobs for empowerment effects. He...

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Dissent On Mars: Gaming and A Participatory Economy

Dissent on Mars is the latest game to be developed by Michael Hicks. It is a unique game in the simulation genre that allows players to design different styles of economies. What makes the game unique...

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A Green Post-Capitalist Economy

In this public talk, economist and co-creator of the model, Robin Hahnel will introduce the key features of a Participatory Economy including an innovative decentralised democratic planning procedure,...

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Intro to Participatory Economics

A cute cartoon giving a short introduction to Participatory Economics. The creator apologies for the spelling errors.

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