Hi Michel, In recent months I’m hearing a very different message coming from US. This video is typical and turns upside down many of the values I’ve grown up with. Do you have a response?
https://youtu.be/R0EfaSv27gI Warm regards, Anna > On 9 Mar 2021, at 11:44, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Petar Jandric has done an in-depth conversation with me about the current > work at the P2P Foundation, which is focused mostly on the me of: how can we > produce for human need within planetary boundaries, in the context of the > rapid construction of post-westphalian cyber-physical infrastructure and > autonomous trans-local ecosystems. > > https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42438-021-00218-8 > > Excerpt: > > Commoning for Planetary Survival and Regeneration > PJ: You recently published a report ‘P2P Accounting for Planetary Survival: > Towards a P2P Infrastructure for a Socially-Just Circular Society’ (Bauwens > and Pazaitis 2020). What is P2P accounting and how does it differ from > traditional accounting? > > MB: In the 1930s, there was this big debate between socialists and liberals > called the ‘Socialist Calculation Debate’. On the one side, were Friedrich > Hayek, Joseph Schumpeter, Ludwig von Mises, and others, who argued that > centralised planning could not work. On the opposite side, were Karl Polanyi, > and others, who claimed that socialist planning could work (and in ways > superior to capitalism). For almost one century it seemed that the leftists > had lost the socialist calculation debate. These days, however, things are > changing. > > There are three main levels of resource allocation. (1) We have the state, > which represents planning – either full planning as in Soviet times, or > regulatory planning, as in the capitalist system. (2) We have market pricing, > which regulates the allocation of capital. (3) Finally, we have the emergence > of mutual coordination or ‘stigmergy’, which brings open source commoning > into the picture. > > Our proposal, ‘P2P Accounting for Planetary Survival: Towards a P2P > Infrastructure for a Socially-Just Circular Society’ (Bauwens and Pazaitis > 2020), consists of an integrated vision that combines the three forms, with > mutual coordination at the first level. We now have distributed > ledgersFootnote10 so that we can move from sharing code and knowledge to > sharing transaction data, shared accounting, shared logistics, and so on. We > are moving from the Internet of Communications to the Internet of > Transactions which enables the development of collaborative open ecosystems > consisting of networks of producers. I think this is a very important shift. > > PJ: And what about thermodynamic accounting? > > MB: Thermodynamic accounting is the ability to see flows of matter and energy > and have them integrated into your accounting system. This implies that we > can create our own data commons, data trusts, data co-ops, and so on. > > -- > P2P Foundation: http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net - > http://blog.p2pfoundation.net > > Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation > > Updates: ; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens > > Curation of news on p2p/commons developments: > https://www.facebook.com/groups/p2p.open/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > P2P Foundation - Mailing list > > Blog - http://www.blog.p2pfoundation.net > Wiki - http://www.p2pfoundation.net > > Show some love and help us maintain and update our knowledge commons by > making a donation. Thank you for your support. > https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/donation > > https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation
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