[p2p-research] alternative economy approach

[Michel Bauwens]

hi kevin,

this is undoubtedly a very likely scenario,

I thought though it was significant to see a platform that integrated
important aspects ... it's rare to see trading, money, and social networking
integrated ...

we'll see how the experiments turns out, and not remain a promising flash in
the pan ..

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Kevin Carson <
free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
>  Kevin Carson
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> Organization Theory:  A Libertarian Perspective
> http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2005/12/studies-in-anarchist-theory-of.html
>



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