A Participatory Economy is a model for a new democratic, fair and green economic system developed as a viable alternative to Capitalism.
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Who will decide how much I am compensated? By Robin Hahnel.
"what we propose is that each worker council decide for itself what procedures to establish to do this... different worker councils would decide to go about this very differently."
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A talk by Anders Sandström on adding realism to the Participatory Economy Model. From the INDEP conference, Democratic Economic Planning for the Real World in Montreal, July 2025.
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A recording of a talk by software-engineer, Mitchell Szczepanczyk, about computer simulations of Participatory Planning. From the INDEP conference, Democratic Economic Planning for the Real World in Montreal, July 2025.
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23 Dec 2025
How do you go about finding a job in a Participatory Economy? And what will your job duties be?
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2 Dec 2025
A brief introduction to the Participatory Economy model. A talk by Professor of Economics, Robin Hahnel, given at the International Network for Democratic Economic Planning's (INDEP) first international conference in Montreal, July 2025.
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18 Nov 2025
Democracy is more than just a noble aspiration. Science now unequivocally tells us that autonomy—the ability to make choices and have control over our lives—is a basic human psychological need, essential for our well-being.
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4 Nov 2025
What kinds of change are possible in the face of the climate crisis? Can climate change be solved with economic system change - or are we too late for that? How deep are the trade-offs between values like democracy, efficiency, equity and sustainability?
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22 Jul 2025
People certainly have a right to be sceptical of non-capitalist alternative economic visions in light of twentieth-century history. We need to bridge the sometimes considerable gaps between our preferred abstract economic models and the reality.
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3 Jun 2025
Robin Hahnel offers a critique of labor time accounting, arguing that there are three different categories of real costs which rational economic decision making should take into account.
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20 May 2025
How would income be distributed in a post-capitalist society and who decides?
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4 Feb 2025
Eine partizipatorische Wirtschaft: ein postkapitalistisches Modell
(Our Introduction to a Participatory Economy is now available to watch in German)
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10 Oct 2024
Communal Income is crucial to a post-capitalist society. It means that income from work is decided politically through democratic processes wider than the individual enterprise, and not allocated from an enterprise's Income Statement.
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21 Jun 2024
The media today is dominated by a few multinational conglomerates. How might media work instead in a post-capitalist economic system, like a Participatory Economy?
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9 Apr 2024
An animated introduction to the model of a post-capitalist economy, known as a Participatory Economy. Featuring: the values, institutional features, benefits, and real-world examples. Watch and share.
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4 Apr 2024
One distinguishing feature of a Participatory Economy is that there is no connection between the fees a worker council or workplace is charged for its access to different labour categories and the compensation its members receive for work.
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15 Feb 2024
The popular What’s Left of Philosophy podcast @leftofphil reviewed the post-capitalist model of a Participatory Economy in a recent episode. What did they think? What did they get right? What did they miss? Mitchell, Robin and Antti respond.
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1 Feb 2024
Software developer, Mitchell Szczepanczyk, presents a new version of the Participatory Planning computer simulation software, called Pequod-Plus, which now has pollutants added.
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14 Dec 2023
What gaps are there between the Participatory Economy model and implementing it in the real-world?
Anders Sandström and Ferdia O’Driscoll discuss their new book. A series of seminars on Democratic Planning by the Research Center on Social Innovation.
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11 Dec 2023
It’s an age-old question: reform or revolution? Or, to put it another way, can welfare states be a laboratory for social change? In this episode of PEP talk we discuss the Meidner plan in Sweden in the 1970s, the Finnish welfare state and more.
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23 Nov 2023
Does climate change mean the end of economic growth?
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