[p2p-research] alternative economy approach

[Kevin Carson]

On 7/17/10, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:

> from my observation of change, what I see is that there is at first a very
> great diversity, but soon patterns form that are emulated,
>
> for example, the european middle ages, while localized and diverse, also had
> broadly very similar patters overall, and the same in India say with the
> village structure throughout the country ...

I'm not even sure I disagree with this.  I just think the common
patterns will emerge through something other than one group devising a
new template from scratch that appears to include only a handful of
marts with a handful of product categories each, while a thousand
other flowers are meanwhile blooming and doing their own thing -- the
overall pattern may be similar, but I expect the local iterations of
it to emerge from all sorts of stuff on the pattern of Craigslist,
Freecycle, p2p exchange systems modeled on them, etc.

-- 
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