[p2p-research] reminder of the las indias trilogy

[Roberto Verzola]

I found the book on phyles quite interesting, but I would need to read 
it several times, to digest the whole idea. One quick reaction: de 
Ugarte  write about the Dunbar number (basically the optimum membership 
of a community). I found a really very good discussion of these "magic 
numbers" (optimum number of people for a team, a neighborhood, a 
community, a city, etc. -- actually a range of numbers, not a single 
figure) in HUMAN SCALE by Kirkpatrick Sale. Sale argues that there is a 
human scale in politics, economics, buildings, etc.

In HUMAN SCALE, Sale also asserts that the most efficient transport mode 
of all (compared to running animals, flying animals, planes, trains and 
various other modes of transport), is the bicycle.

Greetings to all,

Roberto Verzola



Michel Bauwens wrote:
> For those who want to follow the debates with lasindias, here are the 
> 3 books that are the basis of their ideas:
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> http://deugarte.com/gomi/phyles.pdf
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> http://deugarte.com/gomi/Nations.pdf
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> http://deugarte.com/gomi/the-power-of-networks.pdf
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> respectively a history of the corporate, governance, and civil forms, 
> each one culminating in the network age
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