[P2P-F] how to call the study of the economics of abundance?

Joseph Jackson joseph.jackson at gmail.com
Sun Mar 6 21:23:07 CET 2011


I tried initially to popularize the late Robert Levin's term Agalmics:
http://www.openverse.com/~dtinker/agalmics.html

Have to think more about this...the idea of Extropy seems relevant also.  We
also have to think in terms of decision theory....choice under abundance may
not make sense because you can consume or enjoy all the options.  Also, even
when things are abundant if you have limited or scare attention you'd still
be operating under conventional decision theory or utility optimizing
parameters.  Thus we need to distringuis Marco Economics/Macro Abundance in
the Political Economy sense from  micro-individual-decision/behavior.

I think Economics of Abundance,  or Abundance Studies.    Post Scarcity
Economics,  Resource Based Economic.    Ecological Economics (also see the
Mars trilogy Red Mars, Blue Mars, Green Mars)

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 4:25 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> see  below, suggestions very welcome,
>
> Michel
>
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Dante-Gabryell Monson <
> dante.monson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> :)
>>
>> I notice on
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxeology
>>
>> *"Von Mises writes that economics<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics>,
>> the study of human choice under conditions of scarcity, can be treated as
>> a specialization of praxeology, the study of all human action."*
>>
>> ... it makes me wonder, *what would be called "the study of human choice
>> under conditions of abundance"* ?
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Patrick Anderson <agnucius at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>  On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Dante-Gabryell Monson
>>> <dante.monson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > I wonder how one would call direct action , transactions , and
>>> contracts
>>> > made by the people without a need for a representative, but with the
>>> > possibility for proxy voting which can be changed at any time in case
>>> one
>>> > would want others to take decisions for us instead of taking them
>>> oneself
>>>
>>> I think http://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Autarchism might be one part of this
>>> answer,
>>> but would avoid claiming it is all we need because it does not mention
>>> the
>>> critical issue of "beneficial connectivity" that our societies now lack.
>>>
>>
>>
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