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by Maira Sutton, Cat Johnson and Neal Gorenflo The sharing economy held great promise when it first emerged. It was seen as a way to help people build community, reduce unnecessary consumption, and generate extra income. It was based on the brilliantly simple notion that when we share, everybody has more. 
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Photo credit: Sebastiaan ter Burg via Foter.com / CC BY. Article cross-posted from Bollier.org.
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Nathan Schneider gives an introduction to the concept of platform co-operativism and why the digital economy can learn from the tradition of co-operatives.
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Intervention in an important debate on what is value in the context of peer production. Rigi and Prey argue that the labor theory of value is still operable, contra Fuchs and Negri. * Article: Value, Rent, and The Political Economy of Social Media. Jakob Rigi and Robert Prey. The Information Society 2015, October, Issue 5.... Continue reading →
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Sociologist Erik Olin Wright explains why a basic income would not be a “disincentive” to work (unlike means-tested anti-poverty programs).
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Paul Vigna explains how Bitcoin currency and the blockchain distributed ledger system are laying the groundwork for alternatives to today’s monetary system.
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The logic of platform economics explained: it is now more expensive to internalize than to link and network. An analysis by Esko Kilpi.
jean lievens's insight:
ECONOMY AND BUSINESS OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS P2P BUSINESS MODELSecon
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Numbers in financial reports differ from reality more often, raising the question of whether investors truly understand the businesses they own.
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It is time to systematically dismantle this wealth hoarding system. Now that we know what it is and how it was built, we can tear it apart piece by piece.
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If the future of finance is going to be digital, we want it to be populated with those who value the deeper tenets of open source philosophy
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In the context of the Ecuadorian transition project towards a open commons-based knowledge society, see Floksociety.org, and to complement the prior analysis of three competing economic models in the age of peer production, I have formulated some transition proposals, on how to get from Phase 2, emerging peer production in the context of the dominance... Continue reading →
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Thinking about ways of mainstreaming the co-op model, the idea that keeps coming up is something like a co-op layer on top of a site like Meetup.
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A discussion with Michael Hudson on debt deflation, mortgage and other debt, negative interest rates; currencies, and the erosion of the real economy.
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Apichai Puntasen, a good friend and also the author of the first textbook on Buddhist Economics, forwarded me an interesting thesis: * Thesis: The relevance of Buddhist Economics: Capitalism, Morality, and the Global Financial Crisis. By Timothy Allen Golden, 1033690. Dept. of Economics, Lingnan University. Submitted: May 4, 2009 You can obtain a copy from... Continue reading →
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Can the factors creating a slower growth world find open discussion in time to avoid severe social strife and an Age of Stagnation
jean lievens's insight:
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This is the first of three videos that will tackle an investigation of the gender wage gap going beyond popular rhetoric and analysing its underlying causes
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In this piece, Rahila Gupta investigates the importance and impact of womens' cooperatives in Rojava.
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Brilliant explanation of why the social insurance model of the 20th century is dying and why the basic income is the unavoidable alternative.
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Isaac Anderson, a former MakerBot employee, tells a cautionary tale about the perils of venture capital inserting itself in the Open Source community
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“What makes political systems cross over the threshold into parameter transformations? Some breakpoints occur when a technological development enables individuals to engage in previously unimagined activities and collectivities to pursue previously inconceivable policy goals…. a turning point that occurs when the resources or practices of a system can no longer cope with one more increment... Continue reading →
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Announcing the launch of a new grassroots initiative to explore and promote the notion of a Credit Commons and inter-operable currencies.
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"The state is like a household that should not spend more than it earns" This kind of ‘handbag economics’ draws its analogy from erroneous myths.
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On the Necessity of Transforming the Fictitious Commodities into Commons (3): Labor | P2P FoundationAs factors of production, people are no longer human beings, but commodities bought and sold in labor markets, so called wage slaves, or “human capital”.
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