Cédric Durand discusses ecological planning, institutional utopias, and the idea of bifurcation.
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Shownotes
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.
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.
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:
on Jason Hickel:
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.
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:
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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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
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
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