ABOUT COCEPLAD



COCEPLAD started in 2015 as an extra-university extension of CEPLAD (Centre of Studies for Development Planning, Economics School, University of Buenos Aires), until then constituted by a group of economists dedicated to teaching, research and university extension. Its members confirmed then that the horizons of their collective research in the field of theory and practice of economic planning exceeded the purely formal university bound, thus craved to broaden their confines beyond it.



COCEPLAD studies the theoretical fundamentals of economic planning. Through its consequent and rigorous development we aim to obtain clues in order to build up synthetic concepts capable of:

a) delivering an updated diagnosis of the main theoretical and practical problems relative to planning

b) foreshadowing creatively a solution for these problems through developing concrete strategies with ambitious purposes for the short, medium and long term.



Under this framework COCEPLAD works on the design, development and application of innovative instruments of diagnosis, planning and economic management. On that account, several prototypes of the Profit Impact Simulator (SIG) have been developed, each one of them built to fit different economic activities; but still erected around the same underlying model of capital rotation: one that allows to optimise the capital's chronostructure - whether of a capital company or a subsystem.



At the hand of both the SIG and the process of identification and characterisation of capital subsystems and innovation circuits, COCEPLAD offers counselling services aiming to improve economic management and planning for companies, workers' cooperatives and state entities. Such service is complemented with courses and workshops on theory and practice of economic planning for the workpeople of these institutions. These meetings are conceived as vital reciprocal learning stages in the path of researching and reflecting on theoretical and practical problems that arise from professional practises.