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Publications · Sustainable Development Commission: Prosperity without growth
Prosperity Without Growth? says that the current global recession should be the occasion to forge a new economic system equipped to avoid the shocks and negative impacts associated with our reliance on growth. Ahead of the G20 Summit in London, the report
Future: How The Social Contract Between People and Brands Will Evolve « Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing
As customers can elect how much information they want to share, they are now in charge. Prospects (not customers yet) can share very minimal amounts of information, giving the brand limited ability to bug them. As the prospect becomes more interested, sar
Mutualist Blog: Free Market Anti-Capitalism: Alfred Chandler: A Critique
a critique of economies of scale theories
The Real Wealth of Nations by Albert Klamt — Gaia Community
This is about a book of Riane Eisler which deals very concretely, powerfully and globally with some underlying dynamics of the current financial, economic and cultural earthquakes. Its a rabbit hole with lots more ressources about Rianes work, projects an
Reality Sandwich | What is Economic Activism?
Economic activism focuses on the idea of using one's wealth to represent one's values. For the purposes of this article wealth is represented in two different ways. The first way is the financial resources, savings, stocks, bonds, etc. that a person has.
Philippe Aigrain on the non-market information sector
masterly presentation at Oekonux 4, a must read
alternatives to a growth economy.
There are healthy alternatives to a growth economy. A steady state economy need not be one of deprivation or struggle. A growth economy is a debt economy, and debts always have to be repaid. Growth is always funded by incurring new debts. Print money and
Facebook Takes a Dive: Why Social Networks Are Bad Businesses - TIME
The business of having online sites with content created by amateurs to be viewed by other amateurs never had a reasonable chance of making money. The fact that at one point Facebook had a $15 billion valuation, that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp (NWS) bough
Open the Future: One Model for a New World Economy
If the Industrial-Era economic system is, in fact, on its last legs, it would be useful to think through some of the possible post-capitalism models that might emerge.
I don't think we have enough early indicators to create a solid vision, so anything we
Resilience economics - Jamais Cascio’s 2020 vision | Blog | Futurismic
What’s interesting - and perhaps more reasonable - about Cascio’s approach is that he isn’t adhering to either of the standard polar opposites of socialism and capitalism; he’s attempting to synthesise the two in this report from an imaginary future a few
Dematerialize: Changing the Ways We Relate to Product & Ownership
There is a large and fast-moving shift occurring within the landscape of tools & technology. Increasingly, products are dematerializing and being re-engineered as services. This shift is being driven in part by rising production costs and an increasing aw
The Distributist Voice: P2P Blog On Co-Op Manufacturing
This report, posted March 15th, comes from the blog of the P2P Foundation. Written by Michel Bauwens, it talks about the Distributist powerhouse that is Emilia-Romagna in Northern Italy. A masterpiece example of Distributism in action, it's small business
Buddhist Economics Research Platform - Schedule
speaking on friday, april ?, 2 pm
HACK MONEY, HACK BANKING: Rushkoff on the economy | ARTHUR MAGAZINE - WE FOUND THE OTHERS
In these books, you can find out about the sustainable local economic systems of the Late Middle Ages, learn that the Black Plague actually began after mandated centralized currency had impoverished Europe, and find support of my contention that cathedral
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