Vivek Chibber on Market Socialism.
Information from the introduction
Christoph Sorg on Planning:
Sorg, C. (2025). Finance as a form of economic planning. Competition & Change, 29(1), 17-37.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10245294231217578
Sorg, C. (2022). Failing to plan is planning to fail: Toward an expanded notion of democratically planned postcapitalism. Critical Sociology, 49(3), 475–493.:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/08969205221081058
Sunkara, B., Burgis, B., & Beggs, M. (2026). The Blueprint: How Socialism Can Work in the Real World. Verso Books.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/790853/the-blueprint-by-bhaskar-sunkara-ben-burgis-mike-beggs/
https://blueprintforsocialism.com/
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (2026). Creative Construction. Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press.
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
the ‘Socialism for Future’ conference:
https://www.rosalux.de/en/event/es_detail/7PQTR/save-the-date-konferenz-socialism-for-future?cHash=8d95c717d23a2a91b34d3eb01481f410
Register here: https://info.rosalux.de/#Buchung/7pqtr
Shownotes Vivek Chibber
Vivek Chibber at NYU
https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/vivek-a-chibber.html
Chibber, V. (2022). Confronting Capitalism: How the World Works and how to Change it. Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2705-confronting-capitalism?_pos=11&_sid=7c4c2b273&_ss=r
Chibber, V. (2022). The Class Matrix: Social Theory After the Cultural Turn
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674245136
Vivek Chibber’s podcast ‘Confronting Capitalism’:
https://open.spotify.com/show/7zp3bSyA9jU7b7NBrzQ4q0
https://confrontingcapitalism.substack.com/podcast
the mentioned Interview with Vivek Chibber in Jacobin: ‘Socialism Has a Future. Central Planning Doesn’t.’ May 14, 2026
https://jacobin.com/2026/05/central-planning-soviet-union-socialism
Vivek Chibber at Jacobin:
https://jacobin.de/autoren/vivek-chibber/
Pat Devine & Fikret Adaman on economic planning:Devine, P. (1988). Democracy and economic planning: the political economy of a self-governing society. New York: Routledge.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780429033117/democracy-economic-planning-pat-devine
Devine, P. (2022). Negotiated Coordination and Socialist Democracy. In Laibman, David and Campbell, Al. (Ed.), (En)Visioning Socialism IV: Raising the Future in Our Imaginations Before Raising It in Reality. In Science & Society, Vol. 86, No. 2. New York: Guilford Publications.:
https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/siso.2022.86.2.140
Adaman, F., & Devine, P. (1997). On the economic theory of socialism. New Left Review, 54-80.
https://newleftreview.org/issues/i221/articles/fikret-adaman-pat-devine-on-the-economic-theory-of-socialism.pdf
Kim Moody responding to Vivek Chibber:‘Workers will fight for their self-interest. A response to Vivek Chibber on planning, market socialism, and the necessity of rupture.’ September 22, 2026
https://tempestmag.org/2026/09/workers-will-fight-for-their-self-interest/
Benanav, A. (2025). Beyond Capitalism—1. New Left Review, Issue 153, 65–128.
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii153/articles/aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-1
Benanav, A. (2025). Beyond Capitalism—2. New Left Review, Issue 154, 97–143.
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii154/articles/aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-2
Mises, L. V. (1922). Die Gemeinwirtschaft. Untersuchungen über den Sozialismus, Jena, 2.
https://cdn.mises.org/Die%20Gemeinwirtschaft_2.pdf
on the Austrian School:
Menger, Carl (2007) [1871]. Principles of Economics. Translated by Dingwall, James; Hoselitz, Bert F. Auburn, Alabama: Ludwig von Mises Institute.
https://cdn.mises.org/principles_of_economics.pdf
Adaman, F. & Devine, P. (1996). The economics calculation debate: lessons for socialists, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 20, Issue 5, September 1996, Pages 523–537,https://academic.oup.com/cje/article-abstract/20/5/523/1676078
Laibman, D. (2024). Multilevel Democratic Iterative Coordination (MDIC): A Path for Socialism beyond the Market/Central Planning Dilemma. World Review of Political Economy. 15. 10.13169/worlrevipoliecon.15.1.0004.
https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/worlrevipoliecon.15.1.0004
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