El 21/06/11 04:23, Apostolis Xekoukoulotakis dijo:
What I am about to say needs testing and more thinking but let me tell you what I have done so far to create an alternative to the free market.
We're probably using the term "free market" in a different sense. The market can refer simply to the cash nexus, or the arena of commodity production for monetized exchange. But it can also be used, by market anarchist like me, to describe the entire spectrum of voluntary transactions and relationships -- including cooperatives, gift economies, communal property, informal barter, mutual aid, etc.
I have created a new class of currencies that are very similar to the very old currencies. What if each person used the creation of his work as currency. When someone owns 5 paul's chairs for example , It is meant that Paul will have to give him those 5 chairs in the future if he asks for them. This is then some kind of loan. Someone gives something now in exchange for something in the future. If he doesnt need the chairs, he might have to exchange Paul's chairs with something else.
That sounds a lot like Tom Greco's mutual credit clearing networks, which I'm a big fan of. Every member runs a balance that looks a lot like the balance in a checking account. When you sell a good or service to a member your balance goes up, and when you purchase same it goes down. And the system allows people to run negative balances, so long as the negative balance is limited to some value relative to their average monthly sales and the account continues to be active and turn over. So "money" is essentially backed by the goods being traded; rather than being a store of value from past production, it is simply a unit of account for denominating trade of present-for-present or present-for-future production. Nobody has to have a store of money from past production in order to trade, so there's no problem of economic stagnation for want of liquidity ("there's not enough money in circulation"). People create money by trading. -- Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society http://c4ss.org Mutualist Blog: Free Market Anti-Capitalism http://mutualist.blogspot.com The Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Overhead Manifesto http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2005/12/studies-in-anarchist-theory-of.html