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Computer Simulations of Participatory Planning

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Mitchell Szczepanczyk – Computer Simulations of Participatory Planning

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 can find it here: https://www.indep.network/recordings-…

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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.

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  1. David R. on

    This is outstanding. After I got out of Chicago I was lucky to survive March on Monsanto in Little Rock, but it was up in Michigan the laptop disappeared, every best effort was made, and here we are. This search engine will find documents you won’t find in google, and I found you here by accident while working on a slice of it.
    I’ll save the screenshot somewhere with a link. It’s search from my https://indyradio.net which actually opens here –
    https://lookdown.org/yacysearch.html?query=chicago+protest&Enter=Search

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