Category:Economics
* See also for more detailed introductory material: Introduction to the P2P Foundation Wiki Material about Economics
Economics is a vast field, (see e.g. Wikipedia: Economics) that has been based on premises that are no longer compatible with the very survival of the planet. The P2P Foundation therefore aims for a re-foundation of economics on different axioms, which we call Commons Economics;
See also below our list of related subdomains that are of particular interest to us and which represent alternatives to mainstream economics.
This category therefore, is for our general material on economics.
Key Quote
Tim Jackson: (2016)
"I have come to believe that building an economy that works is a precise, definable, pragmatic and meaningful task. Enterprise as service, work as participation, investment as a commitment to the future and money as a social good: these four principles provide the foundations for a profound and much-needed transformation of society." [1]
Key Concepts of This Category
Wikipedia suggests that Economics is "the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services." It is centered around the basic concept of scarcity, and the market opportunities that such scarcity creates, and hardly takes into account what it considers as 'externalities', i.e. our planet and the other living beings on which we depend.
The P2P Foundation proposes an alternative economics that is centered around the institution of the Commons, systematically looks for natural and renewable Abundance, and seeks to develop win-win protocols supported by a generative market function and enabling institutions for the common good (the Partner State). We call this process of tranformation, the Commons Transition. Articles in this wiki therefore tend to view established economic theory through the critical perspective of Commons and P2P. We see economic practices not as static but as evolving over time, see Kojin Karatani's work on the Evolution of the Modes of Exchange . In particular, we seen an evolution from the mere view of active consumer, i.e. the Prosumer, to the active Produser, who both produces and uses. I.e. what we call 'commoners' or 'peer producers'.
Useful learning resources
Introductory
- Commons as a Challenge for Classical Economics (International Commons Conference, 2010)
- Radical Implications of a Zero Growth Economy (Ted Trainer, 2011)
- Scope not Scale (Michel Bauwens, 2012)
Deeper Study
- Counter-Economics
- The Political Economy of Peer Production (2005)
- Five Framing Conditions for a Commons-Oriented Economy (2012)
- Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-State Economy (2012)
P2P Foundation Material
- Report: Value in the Commons Economy: Developments in Open and Contributory Value Accounting. By Michel Bauwens and Vasilis Niaros. Heinrich Boll Foundation, 2016. [2]
- The Thermodynamic Efficiencies of Peer Production: research project of the P2P Foundation, in collaboration and under the leadership of the Blaqswan's Collective and others. See the report: PEER TO PEER AND THE COMMONS: A MATTER, ENERGY AND THERMODYNAMIC PERSPECTIVE. By Xavier Rizos and Celine Piques. [3]
- P2P Accounting for Planetary Survival: Towards a P2P Infrastructure for a Socially Just Circular Society. By Michel Bauwens and Alex Pazaitis. Foreword by Kate Raworth. P2P Foundation, June 2019. [4]
Related Categories
(See also below for our sub-categories)
- Our Category: Business is more oriented towards micro-economics.
- Our Category: Sharing gives another perspective from outside mainstream economics.
- Category: ECC2013 Participants included many economists.
- Economics is related to other categories via the Category: Commons Economics
- The Category: Regenerative Approaches is wider, but includes regenerative economics.
Subcategories
This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total.
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Pages in category "Economics"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 1,442 total.
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- Creating Shared Value
- Creating Sustainable Societies
- Creative Destruction and Copyright Protection
- Credit Theory of Money
- Creditary Economics
- Creditocracy and the Case for Debt Refusal
- Criminalizing the Informal Economy through Cost Plus Regulations
- Crisis of Socialist Economic Models
- Crisis of Value in a Collaborative Economy
- Crisis of Value Theory
- Critical Books for an Appropriate Economics for the 21st Century
- Critical Political Economy Research Network
- Critique of the Circular Economy
- Critique of the Cornucopian Abundance Movement
- Critique of the Fordism of the Regulation School
- Crowdsourced Credit Rating Providers
- Cryptoeconomics
- Cryptoeconomics Working Sessions at NYU Stern
- Cryptoeconomy
- Cryptosecession as Non-Territorial Exit from State-Based Taxation
- Cultural Techniques of Cognitive Capitalism
- Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age
- Culture, Labour and Subjectivity
- Cultures of the Economic Crisis
- Currencies, Governments, and the Commons
- Currency of the Commons Transmediale 2011 Panel
- Cybernetic Communism
- Cybernetic Revolutionaries
- Cybernetic Self-Management
- Cybernetics, History and Economics
- Cybersyn
- Cycles of Mutual Support
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- Daniel Gortz on the Competitivity of the Commons within Capitalism
- David Graeber and Charles Eisenstein on the Nature of Money
- David Graeber on Debts, Money, and Markets
- David Graeber on the First Five Thousand Years of Debt
- David Graeber on the Origins of Money, Markets, and the State
- David Graeber on Why the Gift Economy and the Commons Are Always Already Present
- David Harvey on the End of Capitalism
- David Harvey on the Seventeen Contradictions of Capitalism
- David Harvie on Productive vs Unproductive Labor
- David Korowicz on the Peak Oil Tipping Point and its Economic Effects
- David Korten on Radical Abundance
- David McNally on Successfully Resisting Austerity
- De-growth and an Economic Kyoto Protocol
- Debal Deb on Beyond Developmentality towards the Zero Growth Economy
- Debating Basic Income on Al Jazeera
- Debt Forgiveness
- Debt Obligations and Hierarchy
- Debtwatch Manifesto
- Debunking Economics
- Decent Living Standards
- Decentralized Finance
- Decentralized Provisioning of the Basic Necessities as the Fight of the Century
- Decentralized Trade Economies
- Declining Rate of Profit
- Decommodification
- Decontaminate the Economy through a Monetary Revolution
- Decontaminating the Economy Through a Monetary Revolution
- Deflation
- Deflationary Effects of the Web Economy
- Degrowth
- Degrowth Manifesto
- Delinking
- Demand Regulation Policy
- Democracy and Economic Planning
- Democracy Collaborative
- Desdelamina.net/ca
- Design of Money is not Neutral
- Designing an Economy of Provision
- Diego Comin on Why New Technologies Do Not Make Poor Countries Rich
- Different Categories of Goods and Services and their Systems of Governance
- Digital Capitalism
- Digital Cash
- Digital City and the New Economic Paradigm
- Digital Depression
- Digital Economy
- Digital Online Asset Trading Systems
- Digital Plenty Versus Natural Scarcity
- Digital Reputation Economy
- Digitalisation of the Economy and its Social Impacts
- Direct Economy
- Dirk Philipsen on Reclaiming the Commons
- Discussing the Myth of Barter
- Disintermediation
- Dissociate Economics of Property
- Distinction Between Money and Currency
- Distributed Bio-Based Economy
- Distributed Capitalism
- Distributed Cooperative Organizations
- Distributed Networked Biobased Economies
- Distribution of Bads
- Distributist Proposals for a New Guild System
- Dmytri Kleiner on the Political Economy of Social Media
- Dmytri Kleiner on the Price and Value of Free Culture
- Do We Need Two Currencies
- Do-It-Yourself Biology and the Rise of Citizen Biotech-Economies
- Does the Gift Economy Undermine Economic Growth
- Does the Labor Theory of Value Function in Social Media
- Dollar Economy vs Supermoney Economy
- Don Shaffer on the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies
- Don Tapscott on Wikinomics
- Donnie Maclurcan on Thriving Beyond Economic Growth
- Douglas Rushkoff of Getting Past Free Through Radical Abundance
- Douglas Rushkoff on How Corporatism Conquered the World
- Douglas Rushkoff on the Peer to Peer Economy
- Douglas Rushkoff on the Real vs. the Speculative Economy
- Dragon vs Phoenix Economies
- Drought-Related Economic Cycle
- Dynamic Planning
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- E.F. Schumacher and the Metaphysical Reconstruction of Economics According to Catholic Social Teaching
- E.F. Schumacher on the Metaphysical and Theological Roots of Decentralist Economics
- Earth Community Economy
- Eben Moglen on the Commons As An Actor in Transforming Global Political Economy
- ECC2013
- Ecodevelopment Indicators
- Ecological Aspects of Surplus in Production
- Ecological Boundaries of the Information Age
- Ecological Economics
- Ecological Economics from the Bottom-Up
- Ecological Footprint
- Ecologically Unequal Exchange Theory
- Ecommony
- Econ4
- Econocene
- Economic and Human Flourishing In Historical Perspective
- Economic Calculation Problem
- Economic Complexity Index
- Economic Depression
- Economic Elite Vs. The People of the United States of America
- Economic Growth
- Economic History of Nature
- Economic Network
- Economic Policies for Steady-State Solutions
- Economics
- Economics After Capitalism
- Economics Anti-Textbook
- Economics as a Science of Infrastructure
- Economics as Spirituality
- Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science
- Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth
- Economics for Humans
- Economics in a DRM-Free World
- Economics of a Self-Managed Society
- Economics of Abundance
- Economics of Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Globalist and Radical Green Movements
- Economics of Blockchain
- Economics of Community
- Economics of Control
- Economics of Coworking
- Economics of Enough
- Economics of Happiness
- Economics of Land Degradation
- Economics of Monasticism
- Economics of Self-Managed Society
- Economics of Social Relations
- Economies of Integration
- Economies of Scale
- Economies of Scope
- Economism
- Economist Manfred Max Neef Interviewed by Democracy Now
- Economy 3.0
- Economy as a Service
- Economy as an Organism
- Economy For and Against Democracy
- Economy of Communion
- Economy of Contribution in the Digital Commons
- Economy of Crisis Capitalism and Ecology of the Commons
- Economy of Experiences
- Economy of God
- Economy of Meaning
- Economy of Recognition
- Econophysics
- Ecosystem Commons
- Ecovillage Economics
- ECSA on Alternative Market Pricing and Value Mechanisms
- Education Commodity Proposition
- Efficiency
- Eight Forms of Capital
- Ekila
- El Salvador's Bitcoin Policy
- Elinor Ostrom on Social Capital
- Elinor Ostrom on the Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems
- Ellen Brown Occupy LA Teach In on Money and Banking
- Ellen Brown on Public Banking
- Ellen Brown on Reforming the Financial System
- Ellen MacArthur on the Progress of the Circular Economy in the Netherlands
- Emergence of an Economy of Communion
- Emergence of Benefit-Driven Production
- Emerging Economy Wiki
- Emergy Theory
- Emily Kawano
- Empire of Capital
- Empirical Evidence for Cycles within Capitalism
- Employment as a Common Pool Resource
- Enclave Economies
- End of Artificial Scarcity
- End of Banking
- End of Finance
- End of the Market