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How Can Business-to-Business Trade Networks Build Local Resilience? « emergent by design
Over the past year, I’ve been exploring the many examples out there of communities forming peer-to-peer networks in order to rebuild local economies, resilience and trust. These range from gift economies to barter groups, from loyalty programs to mutual credit systems. The latter, mutual credit systems, is the focus of this post.
As we saw in the previous post , the U.S. has expanded its use of energy at a typical rate of 2.9% per year since 1650. We learned that continuation of this energy growth rate in any form of technology leads to a thermal reckoning in just a few hundred years (not the tepid global warming, but boiling skin!). What does this say about the long-term prospects for economic growth, if anything?
Can Economic Growth Last? | Do the Math
For the first time in Greece, a documentary produced by the audience. “Debtocracy” seeks the causes of the debt crisis and proposes solutions, sidelined by the government and the dominant media.
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The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times (New and Updated Edition) (9781844673049): Giovanni Arrighi: Books
Why is this edition "new and updated"? Apparently, because of the 15 page Postscript at the end of the book (pp. 371-386). (I had read the first edition back when it first came out in the nineties but no longer seem to have a copy of it so I cannot compare the earlier edition with this one.) Here in the Postscript Arrighi attempts to sum up what he understands were the three main propositions of his book.
The Viable Systems Model Guide 3e
How to design a healthy business: The use of the Viable System Model in the diagnosis and design of organisational structures in co-operatives and other social economy enterprises A manual for the diagnosis and design of organisational structures to enable social economy enterprises and function with increased efficiency without compromising democratic principles Based on The Viable Systems Model Pack , originally published as part of the SMSE Strategic Management in the Social Economy training programme carried out by ICOM, CRU, CAG and Jon Walker with the financial assistance of Directorate General XXIII of the Commission of the European Communities.
10 Projects Moving Us Towards a Superfluid Economy « emergent by design
Over the upcoming months leading up to the Contact Summit in October , I’ll be highlighting various projects and initiatives working to construct a globally networked society. As humanity and technology co-evolve into higher orders of complexity, it can be said that social media is now facilitating the emergence of new forms of culture, commerce, and governance. We want to bring attention to the great and liberating stuff that’s happening, and encourage connections, conversation, and collaboration.
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Schon immer waren Marken entscheidend; drei Streifen im Sportunterrtricht, die lila Schokoladentafel auf dem Schulhof, die richtige Cola auf dem Heimweg - aber zwei Streifen, Zucker-Schock Schokolade & Kindercola? Schlecht für die Zähne, schlecht für`s Image... schlechter Start im deutschen Staat.I gave a talk last year to a group of TV executives gathered for an annual conference.
The Collapse of Complex Business Models « Clay Shirky
The Technium: 1,000 True Fans
[Translations: French , German , Hebrew , Italian , Japanese , Portuguese , Romanian , Spanish ] The long tail is famously good news for two classes of people; a few lucky aggregators, such as Amazon and Netflix, and 6 billion consumers.The New Economics Institute is working to make the new economics, one which supports people and planet, mainstream in the United States.