In most recent political theory and practice economic planning has largely been off the agenda. Instead we have seen a focus on forms of politics which tend to be oriented around localism, that recoil from planning because of the failures of the past, and fail to imagine real international challenges to the hegemony of capitalism.
The Economic Planning Inquiry Group addresses the ways in which economic planning has in fact come to take global centre stage in government policy and business life, and the possibilities for alternative visions of the purpose and possibilities for planning the economy at both the local and international levels.
