[p2p-research] abundance economics book

[Michel Bauwens]

Sam, what you write here strikes me as a great and crucial strategic
insight, actually a key to our progess,

please elaborate in a publishable form!! this should be your contribution to
the economy of the commons stream in the berlin conference ..

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Book: Wolfgang Hoeschele. The Economics of Abundance: A Political Economy
> of
> > Freedom, Equity, and Sustainability.
> >
> > [edit] Description
> >
> > "The “economics of abundance” is based on a critique of our present
> economic
> > system, which finds value only in scarce commodities – i.e., things which
> > can be sold at a high price because demand exceeds supply. Because this
> > economy depends on demand always outstripping supplies, it also depends
> on
> > “scarcity-generating institutions” – institutions that either manipulate
> > supply or demand in order to keep us in a constant state of need.
> >
> > An economy of abundance seeks to dismantle or reform these
> > scarcity-generating institutions in such a way as to affirm our freedom
> to
> > live life as art (self-expression to others), social equity (so that
> > everyone can live life as art), and sustainability (so that all life can
> > thrive into the future). Among other things, this implies a much greater
> > role for various forms of shared property, individual and community-level
> > self-reliance, and participatory decision-making."
> > (http://shareable.net/blog/event-the-economics-of-abundance)
> >
>
>
> I am looking now in some cases on a "transition economics. Where
> people work together to both share those resources that are shareable
> now (software, designs, knowledge, waste that can be used as food,
> surplus capacities and resources) and cooperate to produce items that
> are still based in scarcity, then re-invest the profits into creating
> more and more abundance-economy-based systems.
>
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