[p2p-research] FORA.tv - Building a Whole Earth Economy: Peter G. Brown

[Michel Bauwens]

Excellent suggestion and seems an important book ...

Paul and the others: don't forget it's now easy for me (us) to ask for
review copies, and if you do, propose a book of the week treatment, followed
by a more in-depth review when you have read the book ...

It's important to keep those commitments to keep receiving them longer term,

If you do so, feel free to use my name and the foundation's, you can point
to our 3,000 readers and being a 0.2% top influential through Twitter ..

It would be nice if you could also send me the book after reading/reviewing
it ...

You can send the request yourself, or ask me to do it for you, but thanks
for making it more easy in that case, by already providing author and
publisher emails,

Michel

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Paul D. Fernhout <
pdfernhout at kurtz-fernhout.com> wrote:

> "FORA.tv - Building a Whole Earth Economy: Peter G. Brown"
>
> http://fora.tv/2009/07/08/Building_a_Whole_Earth_Economy_Peter_G_Brown#chapter_09
>
> Interesting comments on a mainstream macroeconomics textbook (Ben Bernake
> being one of the authors) starting at section 09.
>
> Related to this book:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Right-Relationship-Building-Whole-Economy/dp/1576757625
> "In Right Relationship, Peter G. Brown and Geoffrey Garver use the core
> Quaker principle of "right relationship"--respecting the integrity,
> resilience, and beauty of human and natural communities--as the foundation
> for a new economic model. Right Relationship poses five basic questions:
> What is an economy for? How does it work? How big is too big? What's fair?
> And how can it best be governed? Brown and Garver expose the antiquated,
> shortsighted, and downright dangerous assumptions that underlie our current
> answers to these questions, as well as the shortcomings of many reform
> efforts. They propose new answers that combine an acute awareness of
> ecological limits with a fundamental focus on fairness and a concern with
> the spiritual, as well as material, well-being of the human race. And they
> outline what each of us can do to enable life's commonwealth."
>
> Also related:
>  "Lester Brown: Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization"
>  http://www.earth-policy.org/index.php?/books/pb3/pb3_table_of_contents
> (Are these two Browns related? I don't know.)
>
> Peter Brown does not use the word "cybernetics" but I talk about related
> issues of a "cybernetic" view of economics in Post-scarcity Princeton, and
> the cybernetic theme was on this list earlier in general.
>
> http://listcultures.org/pipermail/p2presearch_listcultures.org/2009-September/004698.html
>
> Of course, Peter Brown seems to still be talking from the point of view
> that Bernake is just ignorant, as opposed to part of some larger
> self-justifying world view that is intentionally looking the other way:
>  "The Mythology of Wealth"
>  http://www.conceptualguerilla.com/?q=node/402
> """
> What was needed was a new “rational” world-view that justified the
> existence of privileged elites. That rationalization came in the form of a
> brand new science known as economics, which included a brand new mythology.
> """
>
> So, it is possible that Ben Bernake was picked to run the Federal Reserve
> precisely *because* he ignores all the issues that Peter Brown raises, not
> despite that.
>
> Also related:
> "Genuine Progress Indicator"
>
> http://www.rprogress.org/sustainability_indicators/genuine_progress_indicator.htm
>
> Chapters 09 through 13 of that video are a complete indictment of
> mainstream macroeconomics and why it is killing the planet, because you get
> what you measure, and you lose what you don't measure. So, we measure
> accumulation of digital ration units (dollars) a lot as GDP, but we hardly
> measure biodiversity or human rights issues or human happiness as "Genuine
> Progress Indicator". Peter Brown talks about the US as violating human
> rights around the world as a consequence of consumption (somewhat like The
> Story of Stuff), which brings to mind things some like Indira Gandhi was
> telling the UN in the 1970s or so about India's environmental footprint per
> person vs. the USA.
>
> Still, the US government is starting to think about that systematically:
>  "Sustainable and LifecycleInformation-based Manufacturing"
>  http://www.mel.nist.gov/programs/slim.htm
>
> --Paul Fernhout
> http://www.pdfernhout.net/
> http://www.beyondajoblessrecovery.org/
>
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