>Louis-Maxime Joly – Local currencies and inter-community monetary federalismmarket socialism. at least it demonstrates yet again that calls for "decentralized" planning amount to exchange
why do INDEP orgas think it's a good idea to keep bringing anti-planning talks to a conference about planning?
>Alfredo Olguin – An Applied Perspective on the Economic Calculation Debate using neural networks.more AI nonsense
>Ferdia O’Driscoll – Beyond the Misconception of Socialism as a “Planned” Economypoints out that we have imprecise language. which is true. the notion that we don't agree on what "the market" is is also interesting
>Sophie Elias-Pinsonnault – Bringing social reproduction in: informality, care work and provisioningbasically it's difficult to model care work for the purposes of planning, which I agree with. for some sectors we can do very little except assign a budget in terms of abstract labor. sometimes it is sensible to rationalize care work and sometimes it is not
>Alejandro Ruiz and Julia Zimmerman – Information System Boundaries in Democratic Economic Planningthere's no slides for this so it's hard to follow
>Gabriel Wainio – Materializing Information Sovereignty Between Earth and Cloudmostly concerned with energy efficiency of the IT infrastructure for planning
>Ferdia O’Driscoll – Understanding Rewards in Socialism using Self-Determination Theoryphilosophizing around motivation. rewards do be tricky. oh and more whining about hierarchies
>Audrey Laurin-Lamothe – Planning from carethe bullshit jobs statistics is interesting
>Fikret Adaman and Pat Devine – Social Participatory Planning on the Question of Climate Crisisparecon is the solution to the climate crisis. nothing new here. they think planning can be done via meetings. planning is to be done in aggregate, despite this being a bad idea (as demonstrated by Cockshott)
>Johannnes Buchner – Strategic Triangle of AI for Ecological Economic Planning in a Circular Economyterrible audio. quite a bit of irrelevant AI stuff. he seems to be referring to figures that are not in the slides. kinda meandering. the bit about viewing the economy as a game where "pre-products" (inputs?) are replaced with products (outputs I guess) seems to just be a needless discretization of technical coefficients
>Alex Creiner – Problems With the Money Signal and the Necessity for Planning in Kindfinally someone who actually understands control theory. he seems to have slides but they're not on the INDEP website. goes over his take on Marx' reproduction schema and his solution to it, based on the work of Morishima. he has a series of videos on YouTube about this
https://www.youtube.com/@TexTalksSometimeshttps://www.desmos.com/calculator/0a1w2hb91a^ this is the thing he uses for slides
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>Simon Tremblay-Pepin – Meet me in the middle? Democratic planning from macro to micro and backvery meta. points out that we can't just have a single unit of account. emphasizes non-commensurability. also we need an institution to talk about our institutions
>Sam Bliss and Adam Wilson- The unplanned magic of actually existing non-market economiesI liked this talk. no slides. talks about small self-sufficient economies, gift economies, mutual aid food networks etc
attempting to mimic market economics in non-market economies leads to all kinds of weird stuff
giving food to people is cool and nice
personally I think there's a lot of foods we could just give away. but perhaps not foods like meat
>Leone Castar – Learning to See and Meet Human Needs in a Postcapitalist Worldwe can't regulate what we can't see. what we see affects what we do, so we have to be careful about what we measure and how we use those measurements. lingers too long on the transit example
TL;DW: optimization is easy to get wrong. it's better to iteratively improve on things
>Anders Sandström – Adding realism to the Participatory Economy Modelthe bit about disaggregation only being necessary when the costs of the constituent parts are different from the aggregate is interesting. unfortunately it seems he's talking about prices, not the actual inputs. besides this it's again just parecon
>Mitchell Szczepanczyk and Jason Chrysostomou – Annual Participatory Planningoh no the slides use the corporate artstyle!
progress report on some parecon prototypes. it's pretty cool to see them making progress, even if I am skeptical of some specific points in parecon
>Dominique Arsenault – Industrial Commons and Democratic Economic Planninga lot of anarchist stuff. points out that free software and open hardware are commons
>Mitchell Szczepanczyk – Computer Simulations of Participatory Planningcontinuation of the previous talk
the IFM stuff sounds like a better way of dealing with the coordination problem than the previous IFBs
>production functionsboo
>Walther Zeug and Jakob Heyer – Holistic economic accounting for a cybernetic planned economyno slides, but it sounds like the same three-dimensional prices that he's talked about before
>Jean-François Colomban – From the Socialist Calculation Debate to Ecological Economicsabout the works of Karl William Kapp. haven't seen Kapp mentioned ITT. he seems to agree with Neurath