https://znetwork.org/author/mitchellszczepanczyk-2/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Thu, 16 Oct 2025 10:35:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/mitchellszczepanczyk-2/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/computer-simulations-of-participatory-planning/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/computer-simulations-of-participatory-planning/#respond Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:58:00 +0000 Mitchell Szczepanczyk’s talk on July 10, 2025, at the first INDEP conference, “Democratic Economic Planning for the Real World,” during SASE 2025. You can find the slides for this presentation here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/… We also have a post on our website that lists the entire conference program and includes links to all recordings and slides. You [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/computer-simulations-of-participatory-planning/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/researching-third-way-democratically-run-economies-with-clojurescript/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/researching-third-way-democratically-run-economies-with-clojurescript/#respond Fri, 05 Sep 2025 15:58:00 +0000 For most of the twentieth century, the main models of organizing an economy were markets (“capitalism”) or state-run command planning (“socialism” / “communism”). But since 1991, there has emerged research into a “third way” of organizing an economy, described with the term “democratic planning”. This slideshow presentation was given online for the Chicago Clojure Meetup [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/researching-third-way-democratically-run-economies-with-clojurescript/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-transitioning-to-a-participatory-economy/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-transitioning-to-a-participatory-economy/#respond Wed, 05 Mar 2025 18:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1280610 I wrote a recent essay on how the model of a participatory economy (MPE) can help preserve the environment. I reposted that essay on Daily Kos, a website aligned with the Democratic Party in the United States. My goal was to widen awareness of MPE with an audience that I thought might be receptive, but I was [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-transitioning-to-a-participatory-economy/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/media-in-a-participatory-economy/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/media-in-a-participatory-economy/#respond Sun, 23 Jun 2024 13:30:14 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1268257 For more than a decade, I had focused most of my political activism on media — making media (television, radio, writings, internet work), challenging dominant media, and working on government policy related to media.  Then I spent a number of years away from activism, and then I returned to being politically active but I switched, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/media-in-a-participatory-economy/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/does-climate-change-mean-the-end-of-economic-growth/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/does-climate-change-mean-the-end-of-economic-growth/#respond Sat, 25 Nov 2023 16:59:00 +0000 Does climate change mean the end of economic growth? How is value even measured and what does the term ‘economic throughput’ mean? Do we need to de-growth or a steady state economy? Do we need system change and to replace capitalism in order to prevent cataclysmic climate change? 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