(please note that my own approach, called P2P Theory, accepts both elements of markets and planning, but advocates massive mutual coordination through stigmergy as the new core of economics; and that this can be achieved through open book accounting and open supply chains as practiced by commons-friendly, commons-dependent, and commons-creating enterpreneurial coalitions that are owned… Continue reading
Essay of the Day: The Future of the Commons Beyond Market Failure and Government Regulation
* Publication: The Future of the Commons – Beyond Market Failure and Government Regulation. By Elinor Ostrom et al. , Institute for Economic Affairs, 2012 Here is the Executive summary: Traditional economic models of how to manage environmental problems relating to renewable natural resources, such as fisheries, have tended to recommend either government regulation or… Continue reading
LabourStart’s Online Campaigning Story
LabourStart has 15 years of experience running online campaigns in partnership with trade unions around the world. This new book serves as an introduction to LabourStart’s campaigning work, and brings together some of our success stories. Campaigning Online and Winning: How LabourtStart’s ActNOW Campaigns Are Making Unions Stronger Authored by Eric Lee, Edd Mustill
Selected Citations on P2P and Ecology
We’ve been accumulating a few choice citations in our wiki section on Ecology. Go there to find the sources. * Charles Eisenstein on the Illusion of Separateness “Technology is both a cause and a result of our separation from and objectification of nature. It distances us from nature, as today’s artificial environments, reliance on machinery,… Continue reading
Four Arguments on Sacred Economics
A summary of the main proposals in Charles Eistenstein’s book, Sacred Economics. Excerpted from Devin Martin: ” I would like to offer a brief summary and commentary on four key ideas contained in his work. I highly recommend you investigate further. Whether or not one agrees with Eisenstein’s ideas is second to the fact that… Continue reading
Trend of the Day: Open Modular Hardware
“While eBay provides a circulation of objects, and cradle-to-cradle provides a circulation of materials, modular construction systems provide a circulation of parts and components. Our ambition is to create puzzles instead of static objects. The system should generate objects of which it is not entirely clear anymore who designed them. An object evolves as it… Continue reading
David Graeber on Giving It Away, an introduction to the gift economy
Kevin Flanagan: The following article entitled “Give it Away” is by Anthropoligist David Graeber. It was originally published on August 21, 2000 by ‘In These Times’. The article includes an introduction to the French Anthropologist and Sociologist Marcel Mauss as well as the French group MAUSS (Mouvement Anti-Utilitariste dans les Sciences Sociales) who were inspired… Continue reading
Book of the Day: The New Networked Social Operating System
People “have become increasingly networked as individuals, rather than being embedded in groups. In the world of networked individuals, it is the person who is the focus: not the family, not the work unit, not the neighborhood, and not the social group”. Several people recommended this book as a thorough scientific explorations of p2p relational… Continue reading
Trend of the Day: Kit-Driven Innovation
Talented amateurs don’t just build kits; kits help build talented amateurs. And healthy innovation cultures — and successful innovation economies — need the human capital that their talent embodies. Kits are integral, indispensable, and invaluable ingredients for new value creation. See the full article by Michael Schrage on ‘Kitonomic Innovation’: “The Industrial Revolution began with… Continue reading
Book of the Day: Therapy Futures without Psy-Enclosures
“Therapists distill expertise about the human condition from the psyCommons and sequester it in professions. Therapy Futures tells how the psychological therapies diligently sought state backing for these professional enclosures and how this ambition failed. The case study that narrates this history is a story of ‘couch wars’, and a narrow escape from capture by… Continue reading