Creative Construction

Jan Groos is Researcher at the Centre for Sociological Theory, Kiel University.Christoph Sorg is Researcher at Humboldt University Berlin.

• Foreword by Kohei SaitoIntroduction - Jan Groos and Christoph SorgPart I: Blueprints of Desire1. A Brief Sketch of Four Models of Democratic Economic Planning - Audrey Laurin-Lamothe, Frédéric Legault and Simon Tremblay-Pepin2. Basic Problems of a Democratically Planned Economy - Jakob Heyer3. Social Dividend Socialism: Labour Autonomy in a Participatory Planned Economy - James Muldoon and Dougie Booth4. Distributed Commonist Planning - Stefan Meretz and Simon Sutterlütti5. Counter-Planning the Polycrisis: For Biocommunism - Nick Dyer-Witheford6. Planning as an Art of Government - Jan Groos7. Discovery Beyond Competition - Evgeny Morozov in conversation with Jan GroosPart II: Building Bridges8. (Re)-Imagining Housing as an Infrastructure for Social Reproduction - Rabea Berfelde and Philipp Möller9. Democratic Planning in One Country? From the Anarchy of Public Planning to Negotiated Globalization - Christoph Sorg10. The Question of Transformation: Approaches to Economic Planning in Existing Policy Proposals - Samuel Decker11. Care Revolution: A Transformation Strategy for a Solidary Society - Gabriele Winker and Matthias Neumann12. Relational Revolutions - Eva von Redecker in conversation with Jan GroosPart III: Non-Boundaries13. Planned Degrowth: Macroeconomic Coordination for Sustainable Degrowth - Elena Hofferberth, Cédric Durand and Matthias Schmelzer14. Post-Sovereign Planning? Nature, Culture and Care in the New Socialist Calculation Debate - Samia Zahra Mohammed 15. Democratizing the Forces of Re/Production: AI Planning as a Sensing Device for a Degrowth Economy - Simon Schaupp16. Embracing the Small Stuff: Caring for Children in a Liberated Society - Heide Lutosch17. Socialism, Planning and the Relativity of Dirt - Nancy Fraser in conversation with Christoph SorgConclusion - Jan Groos and Christoph Sorg

“This is the book that forms the starting point for anyone wishing to engage in contemporary debates on planning in/outside of contemporary capitalism. It brings to life what might be imagined in terms of how we use new technologies to re-engage the question, and actuality, of what a planned alternative to capitalism might look like.” David J. Bailey, University of Birmingham