Our music is taken from the song “Pourquoi je pas?”, and is kindly provided by Chocolat Billy, a band based in Bordeaux, France. To find out more about them, visit their pages on Bandcamp, Facebook and the Free Music Archive.
Robin Hahnel is Professor Emeritus from American University in Washington, DC, where he taught in the department of economics for thirty-three years.
He has also taught as a visiting professor at the Catholic University in Lima Peru, the University of Manchester in the UK, and, most recently, at Lewis and Clark College, Portland State University and Willamette University in Oregon. where he now lives.
He is best known as co-creator together with Michael Albert of the alternative to capitalism known as a “participatory economy.” His most recent book is Democratic Economic Planning (Routledge 2021).
Further information:
Participatory Economy
ResearchGate
EPISODE RESOURCES
The Pandemic Has Exposed the Free Market’s Fundamental Flaws. We Need a Democratically Planned Economy
by Hadas Thier
Jacobin
We Need an Economy Without Bosses and Managers. Participatory Economics Is How (interview with Michael Albert)
by C.J. Polychroniou
Truthout
Participatory Economy
Official website
Economic Planning Meets Needs Which the Market Ignores
by Razmig Keucheyan
Jacobin
Heterodox economics
Wikipedia
Adlai Stevenson II
Wikipedia
Students for a Democratic Society
Wikipedia
Economic Democracy
by David Schweickart
The Next System Project
Economic Democracy: Framing the Future
by Lebaron Sims
Demos
A new definition of economic democracy – and what it means for inequality
by Helena Vieira
LSE Blog
Workers’ Council
Participedia
The Making of the New Left
by Louis Menand
The New Yorker
Simulating Socialism: Creating a Computer Simulation of a Socialist Economy
by Jan Philipp Dapprich
Designing History
How computer simulations can help shape economic policy
by Rachana Shanbhogue
The Economist
Who Saw the Collapse of the USSR Coming?
by Clara Ferreira Marques
Bloomberg
The Red and the Black
by Seth Ackerman
Jacobin
Yes, a Planned Economy Can Actually Work
by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski
Jacobin
Seeing Post-Capitalism Through the Lens of the Commons
by David Bollier
Giving Compass
Egalitarian trade justice
by James Christensen
Moral Philosophy and Politics
MORE BY ROBIN HAHNEL
Participatory Planning with Prof Robin Hanel (podcast)
From Alpha To Omega
Participatory Economics with Robin Hahnel (podcast)
After the Oligarchy
Democratic Economic Planning
Routledge
Alternatives to Capitalism: Proposals for a Democratic Economy
with Erik Olin Wright
Verso
Radical Political Economy: Sraffa Versus Marx
Routledge
Economics for Commoners
Independently published
Green Economics: Confronting the Ecological Crisis
Routledge
Of the People, By the People: The Case for a Participatory Economy
AK Press
Economic Justice and Democracy: From Competition to Cooperation
Routledge
The ABCs of Political Economy: A Modern Approach
Pluto Press
Panic Rules!: Everything You Need to Know about the Global Economy
South End Press
Looking Forward: Participatory Economics for the Twenty First Century
with Michael Albert
South End Press
The Political Economy of Participatory Economics
with Michael Albert
Princeton University Press
Unorthodox Marxism: An Essay on Capitalism, Socialism, and Revolution
with Michael Albert
South End Press
Socialism Today and Tomorrow
with Michael Albert
South End Press
Marxism and Socialist Theory: Socialism in Theory and Practice
with Michael Albert
South End Press
Quiet Revolution in Welfare Economics
with Michael Albert
Princeton University Press
The Case against Markets
Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 41, No. 4
Income Distribution and Environmental Sustainability: A Sraffian Approach
Routledge
Of the People, By the People: The Case for a Participatory Economy
AK Press