Comments on: A critique of steady-state capitalism https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/a-critique-of-steady-state-capitalism/2010/07/02 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:17:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.14 By: Patrick Anderson https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/a-critique-of-steady-state-capitalism/2010/07/02/comment-page-1#comment-432000 Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:17:54 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=9593#comment-432000 Hazel Henderson wrote:

> growth is a vital part of all
> natural systems : at all times

Yes, but who should control or ‘own’ that new growth?

Is there any chance the Peer who paid for that growth should have some say?

If so, and if Profit is the source of growth, then what is the ‘proper’ way to use Profit so that it grows the commons in a distributed way?

What if we were to treat Profit as an investment from the Peer who paid it – so it increases the commons, but does so without centralizing control?

]]> By: Hazel Henderson https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/a-critique-of-steady-state-capitalism/2010/07/02/comment-page-1#comment-431623 Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:35:18 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=9593#comment-431623 Having written on these topics in 8 books since my The Politics of the Solar Age ( Doubleday,1981) all at http://www.hazelhenderson.com the debate is getting stale. Recently I and physicist Fritjof Capra wrote a monograph ,QUALITATIVE GROWTH ,(published by the Inst. of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales and Tomorrow’s Company ( downloadable from http://www.EthicalMarkets.com ) pointing out again, that growth is a vital part of all natural systems : at all times , some parts are growing , some parts dying and some parts are maintained . We just need to get beyond economics and use systems integration and post-cartesian science , as I have recommended for decades. Happpily, the green economy is GROWING ! see our Green Transition Scoreboard at http://www.greentransitionscoreboard.com

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