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Jasper Bernes on Planning and Anarchy

Jul 11, 2021
01:25:14

Jasper Bernes presents a sharp critique of centralized planning and proposes what he calls: Planarchy.

Shownotes

Jasper Bernes on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/outsidadgitator

Bernes, Jasper. 2020. "Planning and Anarchy". In South Atlantic Quaterly vol. 119(1): 53-73:

https://jasperbernesdotnet.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/1190053.pdf 

Jasper Bernes' Website:

https://jasperbernes.net/

Commune Editions Magazine edited by Jasper Bernes, Joshua Clover, and Juliana Spahr:

https://communeeditions.com/

Bernes, Jasper. 2019. "Between the Devil and the Green New Deal". Commune:

https://communemag.com/between-the-devil-and-the-green-new-deal/

Bernes, Jasper. 2018. "Communism might last a million years". Commune:

https://communemag.com/the-shield-of-utopia/

Amadeo Bordiga (Wikipedia):

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

Groos, Jan. 2021. "Distributed Planned Economies in the Age of their Technical Feasibility". In BEHEMOTH A Journal on Civilisation vol. 14(2) herausgegeben von Janosik Herder, Felix Maschewski und Anna-Verena Nosthoff: 75-87. (English, extended version of the german book chapter):

https://ojs.ub.uni-freiburg.de/behemoth/article/view/1061

On the historical socialist calculation debate

The Austrians (selection)

Mises, v. Ludwig. 1990. Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth. Auburn: Ludwig von Mises Institute. (full book):

https://cdn.mises.org/Economic%20Calculation%20in%20the%20Socialist%20Commonwealth_Vol_2_3.pdf

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

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

Hayek, F. A. 2005 [1936]. "Economics and Knowledge". Mises Daily Articles:

https://mises.org/library/economics-and-knowledge

Hayek, F. A. 1963 [1935]. Collectivist Economic Planning. London: Routledge:

https://cdn.mises.org/Collectivist%20Economic%20Planning_2.pdf

Wiki on the Austrian School of Economics:

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

The Socialists (selection):

Lange, O. 1936. “On the Economic Theory of Socialism: Part One”. The Review of Economic Studies, 4(1): 53–71:

https://www.jstor.org/preview-page/10.2307/2967660?seq=1

Neurath O. 2005 [1925]. “Economic Plan and Calculation in Kind”. In Otto Neurath Economic Writings Selections 1904–1945. Vienna Circle Collection, vol 23. Wiesbaden: Springer:

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/1-4020-2274-3_14

Barone, E. 2012. “THE MINISTRY OF PRODUCTION IN THE COLLECTIVIST STATE”. Giornale Degli Economisti e Annali Di Economia, 71(Anno 125)(2/3): 75–112:

http://www.jstor.org/stable/43828055

D. Dickinson. 1933. “Price Formation in a Socialist Community”. The Economic Journal, Volume 43, Issue 170, 1 June 1933: 237–250:

https://academic.oup.com/ej/article-abstract/43/170/237/5267408?redirectedFrom=fulltext

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/

Other historical voices (selection):

Schumpeter, Joseph A. Capitalism. 1976. Socialism and Democracy. London: Routledge. Full book:

https://eet.pixel-online.org/files/etranslation/original/Schumpeter,%20Capitalism,%20Socialism%20and%20Democracy.pdf

Socialist Calculation Debate 2.0

Saros, Daniel E. 2014. Information Technology and Socialist Construction – The End of Capital and the Transition to Socialism. London: Routledge:

https://www.routledge.com/Information-Technology-and-Socialist-Construction-The-End-of-Capital-and/Saros/p/book/9780415742924

Cockshott, Paul and Allin Cottrell. 2000. Towards a new socialism. Nottingham: Russell Press. Full book:

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

Phillips, Leigh and Michal Rozworski. 2019. The People’s Republic of Walmart. London: Verso:

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2822-the-people-s-republic-of-walmart

Morozov, Evgeny. 2019. "Digital Socialism?". New Left Review vol. 116/117:

https://newleftreview.org/issues/II116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialism

Spufford, Francis. 2010. Red Plenty. London: Faber and Faber. (novel):

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6481280-red-plenty

Dyer-Witheford, Nick. 2013. "Red Plenty Platforms". Culture Machine vol. 14:

https://culturemachine.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/511-1153-1-PB.pdf

Fuchs, Christina (Hg.). 2020. Communicative Socialism/Digital Socialism. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 18 (1): 1-285:

https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1149

Phillips, Leigh and Michal Rozworski. 2019. "Yes, a Planned Economy Can Actually Work". Jacobin Magazine:

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/03/economic-planning-walmart-democracy-socialism

Malloy, Michael. 2019. "Economic Planning and Degrowth: How Socialism Survives the 21st Century". New Socialist:

https://newsocialist.org.uk/economic-planning-and-degrowth/

 

Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics:

S01E31/32 | Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (pt. 1 & 2):

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e31-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-1/;

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e32-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-2/

S01E44/45 | Benjamin Bratton on Synthetic Catallaxies, Platforms of Platforms & Red Futurism (pt. 1 & 2):

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e44-benjamin-bratton-on-synthetic-catallaxies-platforms-of-platforms-red-futurism-part-1-2/;

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e45-benjamin-bratton-on-synthetic-catallaxies-platforms-of-platforms-red-futurism-part-2-2/

S01E16 | Richard Barbrook on Imaginary Futures:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e16-richard-barbrook-on-imaginary-futures/

(German) S01E12 | Daniel Loick zu Anarchismus:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e12-daniel-loick-zu-anarchismus/

(German) S01E14 | Harald Welzer zu Kapitalismus, Planwirtschaft & liberaler Demokratie:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e14-interview-mit-harald-welzer-zu-kapitalismus-planwirtschaft-amp-liberaler-demokratie/

(German) S01E18 | Simon Schaupp zu Kybernetik und radikaler Demokratie:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e18-simon-schaupp-zu-kybernetik-und-radikaler-demokratie/

(German) S01E19 | Jan Philipp Dapprich zu sozialistischer Planwirtschaft:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e19-jan-philipp-dapprich-zu-sozialistischer-planwirtschaft/

(German) S01E38 | Ulrike Herrmann zu kapitalistischer Planwirtschaft: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e38-ulrike-herrmann-zu-kapitalistischer-planwirtschaft/

(German) S01E39 | Jens Schröter zur Gesellschaft nach dem Geld: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e39-jens-schroeter-zur-gesellschaft-nach-dem-geld/

(German) S01E51 | Timo Daum zur unsichtbaren Hand des Plans: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e51-timo-daum-zur-unsichtbaren-hand-des-plans/

(German) S01E47 | Stefan Meretz zu Commonismus:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e47-stefan-meretz-zu-commonismus/

 

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