Love Economy
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<img title="Dewey, post eviction" alt="Dewey, post eviction" src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2011/12/dewey-post-eviction-660x440.jpg" /> Dewey Square after the Dec. 10 eviction of Occupy Boston <img title="Last day of Occupy at Dewey" alt="Last day of Occupy at Dewey" src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2011/12/last-day-from-ga-660x440.jpg" /> Boston's Dewey Square on Dec. 9, as some occupiers evacuated and other drew together in preparation for eviction <img title="Occupy Boston's Sacred Space" alt="Occupy Boston's Sacred Space" src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2011/12/a-sacred-tents-660x440.jpg" /> The view from inside Occupy Boston's Sacred Space, an interfaith chapel inside of a tent. Protestors prayed here up until the eviction.
Beyond the Rhetoric: The Complicated, Brief Life of Occupy Boston | Threat Level
what struck me is the truly radical economic notion enmeshed in the Mesh: The more we share our stuff, the less we need to buy all that new stuff that inevitably leads to ever-rising greenhouse gas emissions, environmental degradation, and the pursuit of unsustainable consumption
The love economy (3): Lisa Gansky on the ecological potential of p2p object sharing
The capability approach (also referred to as the capabilities approach ) was initially conceived in the 1980s as an approach to welfare economics . [ 1 ] In this approach, Amartya Sen brought together a range of ideas that were hitherto excluded from (or inadequately formulated in) traditional approaches to the economics of welfare.
Capability approach
We are told that a healthy happy citizen must enjoy "meaning, mastery and autonomy".
Can we become 'happy citizens' in a climate of insecurity?
The love economy (2): The political appropriation of happiness in the UK
Excerpted from a report by Pat Kane, on how various UK forces are trying to use ‘happiness’ politics:
The love economy (1): Hazel Henderson on compound interest as a violation of the 2nd law of thermodynamics
if systems are too large and interconnected to manage and banks are “too big to fail,” then they need to be carefully dismantled and decentralized to restore diversity and resilience following nature’s design principles. Monetary monocultures now on a global scale have demonstrably failed.