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 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 -