The following book review by our P2Pvalue colleague Mayo Fuster Morell was originally published on the CCCBLab site. Image CC-BY Democracy Chronicles Cases such as Airbnb, Uber, and eBay have popularised the concept of the sharing economy.
Today’s economy is built on the founda��ons of a global industrial and financial system with immense produc��ve capacity, but the extrac��ve nature of which has created extreme income disparity and social injus��ce and wrought devasta��on on the natural world. There is an increasingly spirited debate about the need for a ‘new economy’, which has fer��le and important implica��ons for the legal and philosophical founda��ons of the current system. What are different visions of the ‘new economy’ and how achievable are they? What possibili��es exist at their intersec��on?
How can we reimagine work, exchange, money, care, law and our rela��on- ship with the natural world through the prism of a new economy?
Truly addressing the problems of the 21st century requires going beyond business as usual – it requires “changing the system.” But what does this mean?
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Many of us agree that the economy we have is not the economy we want. There are alternatives: a solidarity economy, a sharing economy, a local economy, an ownership economy, and so on. Many of you know about some of these. All are good, and I think we are still looking. As an additional alternative, I want to propose a civic economy—an economy based on civic relations rather than property relations—designed to make provisions for all rather than making money for the few.
The world economy is corrupt to the core. While this may sound hyperbolic, it doesn’t really matter whether it’s entirely accurate. This is the perception a large group of millennials h…
Our dominant, extractive economy harms people and the planet. But around the world, communities are organizing to put people and the planet before profit. Here’s a short film that looks at how we live, and how we can do it better: How We Live: A Journey Towards A Just Transition from Kontent Films on Vimeo.
The driving question of this article is: How to push open source development or – if you will – the open source movement, support its growth and build up its relevance. The approach here is to look at open source with the eyes of the “New Institutional Economics” (NIE) and find out, what institutions we have in open source, how can we improve them and which one are missing.
Ever wondered what the 'new economy' actually looks like, who the players are and how they interrelate? The Real Economy Lab is excited to able to announce that, after extensive consultation, we have now initiated a survey of hundreds of initiatives on the 'new economy' as part of our mind-mapping process. The resulting, highly visual, mind-map will we hope serve as a foundation for a converging of the 'tribes' of the new economy.
This week I too was at the Sydney Blockchain Workshop, with both Darcy and Trent. I had the opportunity to participate in the 'Alternative economies and reputation-based systems' session, where I spoke about the economics of emergent economies built on blockchains. Also on the panel was Michel Bauwens (P2P Foundation), Primavera de Filippi (Harvard Berkman Center), and Gregory Meredith (Synereo, which…
How do we sustain economic growth in a world of finite natural resources and a growing population? With natural resources becoming ever more difficult t
Alanna Krause of Enspiral tells the story of how Enspiral created a system for participatory budgeting, and a new internal economy between a community o
Very different actors inhabit the worlds of the current policy landscape and this emerging vision of a new system. Some bridge both worlds -- but too few.
n October 2013, Demos hosted a high-level convening on New Economic Paradigms, in partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation. In a spirit of dialogue with the broader research and advocacy community, we are happy to make some of the materials we developed for the convening more widely available here.
This week I had the great pleasure to be one of the hosts of a wonderfully energetic and creative two-day summit on the new economy in Bristol, asking what the future could look like for money, business, ownership, cities and much more.
Two visions of the 'new economy', one based on environmental and social justice values, the other on disruptive technologies, are coming together to challenge the status quo.
Three things are happening right NOW that are creating a sense of urgency at the Sustainable Economies Law Center. Sometimes, it's hard to see that they are happening, so we thought some visuals might help...
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