Centre de recherche sur les innovations et transformations sociales // Research Centre on Social Innovation and Transformation

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Five Criteria to Evaluate Democratic Economic Planning Models
(2022-05-25) Tremblay-Pepin, Simon
This article reviews three models of Democratic Economic Planning, those of Pat Devine and Fikret Adaman, Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel, and Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell. Part of a larger research project aiming to merge certain features of these models, this article proposes five criteria to evaluate them. Following a proposal made by David Laibman, it adopts the organization and regulation criteria and add three others to them: limitation, formalization, and scope. Finally, the article offers a brief analysis of the models from those criteria.
Integration of Approaches to Social Metabolism Into Democratic Economic Planning Models
(2023-09-09) Beaucaire, Krystof; Saey-Volckrick, Joëlle; Tremblay-Pepin, Simon
The integration of environmental issues in democratic economic planning models is the object of ongoing debates. Environmental factors cannot be only reduced to economic indicators, rendering economic models unable to properly account for ecological limits. By focusing on our societies’ biophysical needs, the concept of social metabolism opens new avenues to answer such problems. This paper presents two sociometabolic models and their limits to explore how this perspective could inform democratic economic planning models.
An International Interface: Democratic Planning in a Global Context
(2023-11-09) Dufour, Mathieu; Elias-Pinsonnault, Sophie; Tremblay-Pepin, Simon
There have been renewed discussions about alternative economic systems in recent years. Democratic planning is one of the options that has received a lot of attention, especially in view of the ways it could help address social and ecological challenges. However, little has been written about how a democratically planned economy could relate to other economies through trade or financial flows. This lack of interest is surprising, considering that any country aspiring to plan its economy democratically would have to take into consideration its integration in global value chains and that few would likely aim for complete autarky once fully democratized. In this article, we address this issue by delineating five principles that an institution responsible for international economic relations should follow in a democratically planned economy and giving an example of how it could function in practice.
Democratic Economic Planning, Social Metabolism and the Environment
(2022-04-01) Akbulut, Bengi; Dufour, Mathieu; Legault, Frédéric; Pineault, Eric; Tremblay-Pepin, Simon
This article studies the ecological institution of three models of democratic economic planning: Devine and Adaman’s negotiated coordination, Albert and Hahnel’s participatory economics, and Cockshott and Cottrell’s new socialism. We review these institutions from an ecological economics perspective to see how they tackle environmental issues. Our analysis reveals a number of problematic areas, on which we propose a potential way of resolution: our proposal includes a new framework to understand democratic economic planning, and a merger of the different models and insights for building new institutions that would be better adapted to confront current environmental issues.
Domesticating Money and Prices in Postcapitalism: the Example of Commonism
(2026-03-09) Dufour, Mathieu; Tremblay-Pepin, Simon
This article reviews Commonism, a postcapitalist model developed by Stefan Meretz and Simon Sutterlütti (2023; 2025; Gerdes et al. 2023) based on a decentralized network of commons. As this model puts forward the idea that a postcapitalist economy should avoid using money at all, we focus specifically on how economic coordination can be realized in Commonism. We first present how we understand the functioning of Commonism, to then underline issues generated by the absence of the money form. These issues are about human volition, information, social arbitration and temporality. We end by suggesting a way to domesticate money that would resolve the problems we’ve identified without doing much harm, in our view, to the main features of the model.
Economic Expertise in Postcapitalist Democratic Economic Planning
(2025-04-12) Russell, Ellen D.; Tremblay-Pepin, Simon
Postcapitalist democratic economic planning (DEP) seeks to democratize economic decision-making. In response to the failures of central planning, DEP is vigilant lest the emergence of some new elite subvert its democratic and egalitarian aspirations. This article considers the possibility that economic expertise intended to support DEP may be means through which new elites are covertly encouraged. DEP advocates seek to safeguard DEP processes from elite control by proposing institutional oversight structures combined with enhanced subjective oversight capacities. In the case of economic expertise, we contend that these responses mitigate the possibility that economists’ analyses will have preferential implications but do not resolve this antidemocratic possibility. Economic expertise poses a problem of democratic accountability because its technical opacity impedes democratic oversight, thus enabling the covert design of economic analysis in ways that favour some groups over others. We conclude by arguing that reconsidering economic expertise in postcapitalism can attenuate this tension.

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