Editorial: Democratic Planned Economy in the Age of Digitalisation and the Climate Crisis

Abstract

The debate on democratic (economic) planning has been gaining momentum in recent years. The numerous crises of the last long decade have led to a wide variety of searches for alternatives. In the meantime, these search processes have intensified into new approaches and a debate on the question of how economic planning could represent an alternative to market-based allocation. However, one of the open questions is whether it should be a corrective within the capitalist mode of production or whether it points beyond it or can only be realised in a post-capitalist society. Linked to this is the question of its democratic character. Is a planned economy the economic counterpart to the »association of free people« or is it a means of realising a technically optimised society?