Creative Construction: Planned Economies in the 21st Century and Beyond

Democratic planning allows us to effectively address the multiple crises of our time through cooperative modes of collective coordination. Given the destructive consequences of contemporary capitalism, such a structural alternative to market economies is needed more than ever.

This accessible work examines various approaches that theorise, practise and nurture a creative construction towards varieties of democratic planning. Drawing from current socio-economic and ecological movements, it explores what future non-capitalist democratic planning could look like.

Bringing together important voices in the ongoing debates from scholars to activists, this volume proposes an interdisciplinary and innovative approach to democratic planning in the 21st century and beyond.

Jan Groos is Researcher at Institute of Social Sciences at Christian-Alberchts University of Kiel. Christoph Sorg is Researcher at Institute of Social Sciences at Ruhr-University Bochum.