[p2p-research] What comes next?

[Ryan Lanham]

Of course we can go back to feaudalism and some will survive and carry on.
The question is, can something produce value at the level of capitalism in a
form that people rationally accept as desireable.  I doub that can be the
case.  There is no evidence anything else begins to work as well as
capitalism.

R.

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Alex Rollin <alex.rollin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can I get an Amen!
>
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > great exactly my point!
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Joss Winn <joss at josswinn.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 13/07/10 14:14, Michel Bauwens wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> > for example, as ostrom shows, you can have fisheries that are owned by
> a
> >> > community, yet allow individual fishing rights and trading of the
> fish,
> >> > provided the stock is not depleted.
> >> >
> >> > I do believe then, that a commons approach should not be wedded to a
> >> > single proposed mode of allocation, but can be compatible with the
> >> > largest possible human freedom, such as the freedom to trade and to
> >> > market,
> >>
> >> It is worth reminding ourselves that commerce can, did and does exist
> >> without capitalism, as is discussed very well in this article and
> >> related book:
> >>
> >> http://www.monthlyreview.org/798wood.htm
> >> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Origin-Capitalism-Longer-View/dp/1859843921/
> >>
> >> >
> >> > why not call it capitalism, well in my case, because of the infinite
> >> > growth argument, but I'm actually perfectly happy with green
> capitalism,
> >> > natural capitalism, and other similar movements,
> >> >
> >> > when you look at them closely, they are really about the freedom to
> >> > trade, not about infinite growth, hence they are market approaches but
> >> > prefer to use the term capitalism for cultural and political reasons,
> >> > because it is associated with dynamic enterpreneurship etc..
> >> >
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