TY  - BOOK
A1  - Cockshott, William Paul
A1  - Cottrell, Allin
A1  - Dapprich, Jan Philipp
T1  - Economic planning in an age of climate crisis
N2  - Faced with an accelerating climate crisis caused by burning fossil fuels we have to change the way the economy works. We can no longer go on with a system that just maximises private profit without consideration for its effects. Instead we have to conciously plan how to change to a fossil fuel free society.
The need is urgent.
The transformation will be vast.
Nothing similar has been done in the West since the days of wartime mobilisation.
This book explains the basic science of climate change before looking at the transformations needed to our energy and basic industries. It looks at the previous successful history of deliberate planning practiced in the UK from 1939 to the 1960s and how, using modern computing techniques it will be possible to organise resources so as to effect the change.
Y1  - 2022
SN  - 979-8-36012-556-3
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dapprich, Jan Philipp
A1  - Cockshott, William Paul
T1  - Input-output planning and information
JF  - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
N2  - In this paper, we show how socialist planning can be based on input-output data. We argue that the information required for this can be obtained by a central planning agency and thus dismiss Hayek’s information argument against socialism. We further show how economic planning can be made responsive to consumer demand through a feedback control mechanism. Output targets of products would be adjusted in response to observed consumer demand or based on predictions about future demand. Planners can use machine learning to make more accurate forecasts. The valuation of goods plays an important role in the feedback control mechanism. The values of goods can either be measured by the labour time necessary for their production (labour values) or through shadow prices based on linear programming.
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2022.10.043
SN  - 0167-2681
IS  - 205
SP  - 412
EP  - 422
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lambert, Karras
A1  - Fegley, Tate
A1  - Candela, Rosolino
A1  - Boettke, Peter
A1  - Phelan, Steven
A1  - Wenzel, Nikolai G.
A1  - Dapprich, Jan Philipp
T1  - Reply and Counter-Reply
BT  - on cybersocialism
JF  - Journal of economic behavior & organization
Y1  - 2023
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2023.03.026
SN  - 0167-2681
IS  - 212
SP  - 300
EP  - 310
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dapprich, Jan Philipp
T1  - Tokens make the world go round
BT  - socialist tokens as an alternative to money
JF  - Review of Evolutionary Political Economy
N2  - The paper argues that non-circulating tokens should be used as an alternative to money in a socialist economy. These tokens would be used to distribute consumer products out of socialised production to individual consumers. Like modern fiat money, these tokens are a kind of IOU. But unlike money, these tokens are not intended to facilitate the private exchange of commodities. Marx’s proposal to eventually abolish a token-based lower phase of communism in favour of a distinct higher phase is rejected because the ‘needs principle’ of the higher phase can be sufficiently realised within the token system. It is further shown that the prices of items should not be tied to the socially necessary labour time needed to produce them. Instead, prices should be regulated towards market clearing rates.
KW  - Money
KW  - Labour tokens
KW  - Socialism
KW  - Communism
KW  - Marx
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s43253-022-00091-6
PB  - Springer
CY  - Cham
ER  -