Show pageOld revisionsBacklinksBack to top You've loaded an old revision of the document! If you save it, you will create a new version with this data. Media Files==== Sci-fi Economics Lab ==== https://scifieconomicslab.net/ introductions * https://edgeryders.eu/t/meet-the-lab-rats-a-thread-for-sci-fi-economics-lab-folks-to-introduce-themselves/11480 talks on 2019-11-11 * Cory Doctorow, Tom Bauler and Kirsten Dunlop * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i9lSDIIjH8 collective notes from the talks * https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GJfbJIvq933Yd7KQtxPDYKpHPIajC1kvGkG7w7eppCA/edit#heading=h.3h58ihwlhu2y Cory Doctorow - Peak indifference https://locusmag.com/2016/07/cory-doctorow-peak-indifference/ - navigating shifts from 'denialism' to 'nihilism' as an activist - from awareness of issues, to awareness of possibilities - democratic shifts in ownership of digital infrastrucutre, digital feudualism -> cooperatives(?) - democratically owned means of production AND methods of allocation (e.g. uber as coop) - monopoly & oligarchic concentration -> eg. [[https://locusmag.com/2019/05/cory-doctorow-steering-with-the-windshield-wipers/][Luxottica]] Tom Bauler - macroeconomic indicators beyond GDP - [[https://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/the-reinhart-and-rogoff-controversy-a-summing-up][The Reinhart and Rogoff Controversy: A Summing Up]] (re. public debt rates, human error & replication) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_economics - focus on 'resources' is relatively recent in economics (circa ~1970) after long absence - principles of ecological economics - list? - in creating alternatives, focus on what to replciate in existing sytems, as well as what needs to be removed/eliminated - various refs. - comment from M. Bauwens, re chang-mai -> "hard to find ppl who want to work for money" - "changemakers" (via rob v.k) -> https://www.changemakers.com/ - capital poor / labour rich -> transitions in commons - pluralism, anit-monopoly, anti-oligarchy - parallels with emergence of 'ecology' as way of unifying concerns around existing issues, previously seen as disparate (e.g. land conservation, species, clean air, etc) - is there a current set of concerns (re. concentration, ologarchy, monoploies, etc) that can be unified with ecology, complexity, etc? (e.g. climate change & concentration of pro-wrestling leagues?) Please fill all the letters into the box to prove you're human. Please keep this field empty: SavePreviewCancel Edit summary Note: By editing this page you agree to license your content under the following license: CC Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International sci-fi_economics_lab.1573727683.txt.gz Last modified: 2019-11-14 10:34by nik