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S03E59 - Cédric Durand on Ecological Planning


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Cédric Durand discusses ecological planning, institutional utopias, and the idea of bifurcation.

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Cédric at the University of Geneva (includes a list of his publications):

https://www.unige.ch/sciences-societe/dehes/membres/cedric-durand


Cédric’s personal website:

https://durandcedric.wordpress.com/


Durand, C. & Keucheyan, R. (2026 forthcoming). Das Prinzip Verzweigung. Über ökologische Planung in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Dietz.

https://dietzberlin.de/verlagsprogramm-fruehjahr-2026


Durand, C. & Keucheyan, R. (2024). Comment bifurquer. Les principes de la planification écologique. La Découverte.

https://www.editionsladecouverte.fr/comment_bifurquer-9782355221910


Durand, C., Hofferberth, E., Schmelzer, M. (2024). Planning Beyond Growth. The Case for Economic Democracy within Ecological Limits. Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 437.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652623045092?via%3Dihub


Durand, C. & Keucheyan, R. (2022). Planning without Political Constraint imposed on Economic Actors is not real Planning. Verso Blog.

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/5469-planning-without-political-constraint-imposed-on-economic-actors-is-not-real-planning


on Karl William Kapp:

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


on Friedrich Hayek:

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


O’Neill, J. (2002). Socialist Calculation and Environmental Valuation. Money, Markets and Ecology. Science & Society, 66(1).

http://gesd.free.fr/oneill.pdf


on La Planification Ècologique in France:

https://www.info.gouv.fr/grand-dossier/france-nation-verte


the Secrétariat général à la planification écologique (SGPE):

https://lannuaire.service-public.gouv.fr/gouvernement/6af2c8c4-bdf7-405c-bd9e-ed48dad83b96


Viennot, M. (2025). La planification écologique. La Découverte.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/appendix.htm


Pisani-Ferry, J. & Mahfouz, S. (2023). The Economic Implications of Climate Action. A Repot to the French Prime Minister. France Stratégie.

https://www.strategie-plan.gouv.fr/en/publications/economic-implications-climate-action


Wright, E. O. (2010). Envisioning Real Utopias. Verso.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/2143-envisioning-real-utopias


on the Inflation Reduction Act:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_Reduction_Act


on the Developmental State concept: 

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


Zhou, Z., Ou, J., Li, S. (2016). Ecological Accounting. A Research Review and Conceptual Framework. Journal of Environmental Protection. 7. 643-655.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301270365_Ecological_Accounting_A_Research_Review_and_Conceptual_Framework


on Citizen’s Assemblies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_assembly


on Michel Husson:

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


on the Commanding Heights of the Economy concept:

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


on the British Wartime Economy during the Second World War:

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


on Economic Planning in France after the Second World War:

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


Ali, S. (1969). Economic Planning in France 1945–1965. A Brief Review. The Punjab University Economist, 7(1), 51–69.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/25821321


on Malthusianism:

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


on Degrowth:

https://degrowth.info


on Jason Hickel:

www.jasonhickel.org


on Giorgos Kallis:

https://www.icrea.cat/community/icreas/17610/giorgos-kallis/


Jackson, T., Hickel, J., Kallis, G. (2024). Confronting the Dilemma of Growth. A Response to Warlenius (2023). Ecological Economics, Vol. 220.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S092180092300352X?via%3Dihub


Zeug, W., Heyer, J., Lutosch, H. (2025). Cybernetic Democratic Economic Planning & Holistic Accounting. An Economic Framework to Achieve Sustainable Societal Metabolisms.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/393790658_Cybernetic_Democratic_Economic_Planning_Holistic_Accounting_-_An_Economic_Framework_to_Achieve_Sustainable_Societal_Metabolisms


on the Holistic and Integrated Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (HILCSA):

https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=50083


on Ecosystem Services:

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


O’Neill, D.W., Fanning, A.L., Lamb, W.F. et al. (2018). A Good Life for All Within Planetary Boundaries. Nature Sustainability 1, 88–95.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-018-0021-4


Fehér, F., Heller, A., Márkus, G. (1983). Dictatorship Over Needs. Blackwell.

https://archive.org/details/dictatorshipover0000fehe/page/n5/mode/2up


Keucheyan, R. (2024). Ágnes Heller’s Theory of Need Is a Vital Political Tool. Jacobin.

https://jacobin.com/2024/12/agnes-heller-philosophy-marxism-needs


on Planetary Boundaries:

https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-boundaries.html


on Wassily Leontief:

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


on the Input-Output Model in Economics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input%E2%80%93output_model


on the Berlin Housing Campaign for Socializing Housing owned by Big Real Estate Companies:

https://dwenteignen.de/en


on Socialization in the Energy Sector:

https://communia.de/en/energy-power-transformation/


on the New International Economic Order (NIEO):

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


on the Banque de France:

https://www.banque-france.fr/en


on the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE):

https://www.insee.fr/en/information/2107702


on the Direction Générale des Entreprises:

https://www.entreprises.gouv.fr/

 

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https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e54-rabea-berfelde-on-socialisation/


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S03E21 | Christoph Sorg zu Finanzwirtschaft als Planung

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If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:


Democratic planning – an information website:

https://www.democratic-planning.com/


Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.

https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1


Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]

https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction


International Network for Democratic Economic Planning

https://www.indep.network/


Democratic Planning Research Platform:

https://www.planningresearch.net/


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