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Mitchell Szczepanczyk’s talk on July 10, 2025, at the first INDEP conference, “Democratic Economic Planning for the Real World,” during SASE 2025.…
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
Mitchell Szczepanczyk is a software developer, media producer, political activist, aspiring polyglot, degree-holding linguist, and game show aficionado. He has written two e-books, and contributed to the books Real Utopia and Democratic Economic Planning.
Mitchell has been involved with groups working on the heterodox economic model known as a "participatory economy"; he co-founded CAPES, the Chicago Area Participatory Economics Society, and has organized events with CAPES. He is currently helping to develop computational models of a participatory economy.
A son of Polish immigrants and a native of Michigan (USA), he makes his home in Chicago where he has lived since 1996.
For most of the twentieth century, the main models of organizing an economy were markets (“capitalism”) or state-run command planning (“socialism” /…
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