Envisioning post-capitalist utopias via simulation: Theory, critique and models

Hanno Pahl (), Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle () and Jens Schröter ()
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Hanno Pahl: University of Bonn
Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle: Vienna University of Economics and Business
Jens Schröter: University of Bonn

Review of Evolutionary Political Economy, 2023, vol. 4, issue 3, 445-465

Abstract: Abstract We discuss the role of heterodox economics in opening new perspectives, the question of scalability of socio-economic order, the heritage of the “socialist calculation debate” and its ongoing relevance for discussions on “post-capitalism” today and finally the potentials of computational simulation and agent-based modelling for the exploration of alternative socio-economic approaches. The contributions to our special issue address these aspects and topics in different ways and therefore underline the fruitfulness of these discussions, especially in regard to the development of more just and sustainable socio-economic structures. Faced with the contemporary polycrisis, we can no longer afford “capitalist realism”.

Keywords: Utopia; Post-capitalism; Commons; Labour theory of value; Money; Computational simulation; Climate change; Agent-based modelling; Critical political economy; Cultural evolution; Heterodox economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 A14 B14 B15 B51 B52 C63 D46 P32 P41 Q54 Q57 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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