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    How to Change Course

    The Principles of Ecological Planning

    Author Cédric Durand
    Translated by David Broder
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    On sale Feb 16, 2027 | 240 Pages | 9781836741497
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    Beyond growth, ecological planning offers a realist, transformative path toward a balanced human ecological footprint by deepening economic democracy

    After decades of ecological policy failures and fantasies about the virtues of the market, planning is rising as an alternative path to face the environmental catastrophe and advance human emancipation.This book looks back at the history of this notion in the 20th century, between war economies, developmental catch-up, and socialist experiments, revisits the classic debates between the proponents of the "price signal" and those of "calculation in kind", and shows how the current situation offers new possibilities for planning. The cautious deployment of digital tools, innovative accounting techniques, and the deepening of institutions of collective deliberation can give rise to a needs-based government of production. As long as they remain trapped in the straitjacket of the "free market", consumer eco-gestures will prove powerless. Beyond growth, ecological planning offers a realist, transformative path toward a balanced human ecological footprint by deepening economic democracy.
    "Cédric Durand is Professor of political economy at the University of Geneva and the author of several books, including Fictitious Capital: How Finance is Appropriating our Future and How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-Feudalism: The Making of the Digital Economy. He regularly contributes to the New Left Review.

    Razmig Keucheyan is Professor of sociology at Paris Cité University and the author of several books, including The Left Hemisphere: Mapping Critical Theory Today, and Nature is a Battlefield: Towards a Political Ecology. He regularly contributes to Le Monde diplomatique."
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    Acknowledgements
    Introduction

    Part I — Market, State, Ecological Crisis
    Chapter One - The Antinomies of Green Capitalism
    Chapter Two - Politicising the Economy

    Part II — Governing According to Need
    Chapter Three
    The Two-Sided Universality of Needs
    Chapter Four
    Regaining Control

    Part III — Ecological Calculation
    A Note on Method. Institutional Utopias.
    Chapter Five - Ecological Accounting
    Chapter Six - Ecosocialist Investment
    Chapter Seven - Emancipated Demand

    Part IV — A New Political System
    Chapter Eight - Ecological Federalism
    Chapter Nine - The Political Institutions Useful for Ecological Planning
    Chapter Ten - An Augmented Democracy
    Chapter Eleven - Building a Majority Coalition

    Conclusion

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    Beyond growth, ecological planning offers a realist, transformative path toward a balanced human ecological footprint by deepening economic democracy

    After decades of ecological policy failures and fantasies about the virtues of the market, planning is rising as an alternative path to face the environmental catastrophe and advance human emancipation.This book looks back at the history of this notion in the 20th century, between war economies, developmental catch-up, and socialist experiments, revisits the classic debates between the proponents of the "price signal" and those of "calculation in kind", and shows how the current situation offers new possibilities for planning. The cautious deployment of digital tools, innovative accounting techniques, and the deepening of institutions of collective deliberation can give rise to a needs-based government of production. As long as they remain trapped in the straitjacket of the "free market", consumer eco-gestures will prove powerless. Beyond growth, ecological planning offers a realist, transformative path toward a balanced human ecological footprint by deepening economic democracy.

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    "Cédric Durand is Professor of political economy at the University of Geneva and the author of several books, including Fictitious Capital: How Finance is Appropriating our Future and How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-Feudalism: The Making of the Digital Economy. He regularly contributes to the New Left Review.

    Razmig Keucheyan is Professor of sociology at Paris Cité University and the author of several books, including The Left Hemisphere: Mapping Critical Theory Today, and Nature is a Battlefield: Towards a Political Ecology. He regularly contributes to Le Monde diplomatique."
    Cédric Durand View titles by Cédric Durand

    Table of Contents

    Acknowledgements
    Introduction

    Part I — Market, State, Ecological Crisis
    Chapter One - The Antinomies of Green Capitalism
    Chapter Two - Politicising the Economy

    Part II — Governing According to Need
    Chapter Three
    The Two-Sided Universality of Needs
    Chapter Four
    Regaining Control

    Part III — Ecological Calculation
    A Note on Method. Institutional Utopias.
    Chapter Five - Ecological Accounting
    Chapter Six - Ecosocialist Investment
    Chapter Seven - Emancipated Demand

    Part IV — A New Political System
    Chapter Eight - Ecological Federalism
    Chapter Nine - The Political Institutions Useful for Ecological Planning
    Chapter Ten - An Augmented Democracy
    Chapter Eleven - Building a Majority Coalition

    Conclusion

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