Forthcomming books related to DEP

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Can’t wait for these two books to be published:

Table of Content

Preface
Acknowledgements
Glossary

1 Introduction
1 The Crisis of Socialism – Goodbye Lenin!
2 Overview

Part 1 Diagnosis

2 Socialism in Theory – Promise and Possibilities
1 The Communist Mode of Production and Distribution
2 Economic Calculation under Socialism

3 Socialism in Practice – The Soviet Model
1 The Experience of War Communism
2 General Features of Soviet Planning
3 Material Balances
4 The System of Norms
5 Reforming the System – From Optimism to Cynicism
Addendum: Sharing in the Illusion – On the Question of State-Capitalism

4 Socialism in Practice – The Yugoslav Model
1 Laying the Groundwork
2 Toward Self-Governing Socialism
3 Bottom-Up Planning and Collapse

5 Socialism in Theory, Again
1 Back to the Drawing Board
2 The Community of Citizens
3 Contradictions of Market and Plan – The Menu of Options
4 Negotiated Co-ordination and Allocation
5 Participatory Planning of Production and Consumption
6 Big Computer and Labour Time
7 Multilevel Programming

Part 2 Remedy

6 Governance in the Socialist Republic
1 Socialist Constitutionalism and the Social Contract
2 Political Institutions and Practices of Self-Government
3 The Role of Central Planning
Addendum 1: A Note on Public Safety, Crime, and National Defence
Addendum 2: A Note on Organised Political Activity Under Socialism

7 Production in the Socialist Republic
1 Public Property and Public Domination
2 Three Public Sectors
3 Self-Government in Industry – Workers’ Councils

8 General Planning and Parametric Control
1 Cost Accounting – ‘khozraschet ’
2 Planning, Prices, Allocation
3 Co-ordination, Investment, Uncertainty
4 Labour Incentives
5 The Dynamics of Growth
Addendum: On the Possibilities for Progressive Socialisation

Part 3 Conclusions

9 Postscript
1 Closing Remarks
2 What I Hope to Have Imparted to the Reader
3 Moving Forward Along the Long and Winding Road

References
Index

Table of Content

Preface
List of Figures

1 Introduction
1 Nine Claims
2 Summary of the Book

2 Capitalism (and Capital)
1 The ‘Standard View’
2 Capital: A Macro-monetary Totality
3 The Case against Capitalism: Essential Determinations and Systematic Tendencies
4 Conclusion

3 The Present Moment of World History
1 Technological Change and Valorisation in Contemporary Capitalism
2 From a ‘Golden Age’ to a Global Slump
3 Neoliberalism
4 Conclusion

4 A Socialist Constitution
1 Marx’s Ruling Principle
2 ‘Free Development’ (1): Self-Governance without Domination
3 ‘Free Development’ (2): The Freedom of Particular Social Individuals
4 ‘Full Development’: Universal and Particular Needs
5 Two Solidarity Constraints
6 Further Principles
7 Conclusion

5 The Local Level (1): The Democratic Determination of Social Needs and Production Proposals
1 The Social Determination of Social Needs
2 Two Notes
3 The Investment Requests of Production Collectives
4 The Estimation of Costs
5 Retained Earnings and Market Socialism
6 Conclusion

6 The Local Level (2): Social Investment, Social Production, and Social Exchange
1 The Allocation of Social Investment
2 The Process of Production
3 The Acquisition of Consumption Goods
4 Conclusion

7 The Role of ‘Money’ in Socialist Accounting
1 Some Questions
2 A Note on Money in Capitalism
3 Some Relevant Determinations of the Socialist Alternative
4 Conclusion

8 Regional Networks of Production and Exchange
1 Some general remarks on regional production
2 Regional production for social needs and the solidarity constraints
3 Regional production networks and the coordination of social investments
4 The regional innovation system
5 Conclusion

9 Socialism on the National and International Levels
1 The transition to the national and international levels
2 Production for social needs on the national and international levels
3 The Social Transaction Centre
4 A note on the implications of the first solidarity constraint on the international level
5 National and international Democratic Assemblies
6 National and international Agencies
7 The national and international innovation systems
8 The fraught relationship with the remnants of capitalism
9 Conclusion

10 Incentives and Efficiency in the Socialist Model
1 Incentive objections
2 Efficiency objections
3 Conclusion

11 Socialism and the ‘Realm of freedom’
1 The realm of freedom in capitalism and socialism: some contrasts
2 Commons-based peer production in contemporary capitalism
3 The realm of necessity and the realm of freedom: a dialectical unity-in-difference
4 An emancipatory promise fulfilled: commons-based peer production and the socialist project
5 Conclusion

12 Conclusion
1 Why socialism is needed
2 The republican socialist model: a summary
3 How do we get there from here?

Appendix
Bibliography
Index

If you know of any other upcoming books related to democratic economic planning, please share them below.

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Thanks. I was about to post a notification for my book on this forum. I hope it’s of interest and helps advance the debate in some way.

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So Tim, now it is published, no? (even if at a very high price!)
So people can buy it and receive a copy.
If so, we’ll announce it in our next newletter.
(and I’ll ask my university library to buy it)

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Yes it is published as of last week.
The institutional prices are… steep. In ~12 months, a paper back issue should be published at a more accessible price, although I’m not sure what the price will be.
Thank you for putting in a request at your university library to buy it.

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Tim, can you send me a good quality version of the cover, so I can use it on our side, the one on Brill’s site is too small. Thanks! (email: stremblay@ustpaul.ca)

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Sure, it’s done :+1:

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Thanks, it looks much better that way!