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

Mon Mar 7 03:23:57 CET 2011

While it is an interesting linguistic problem, I hope it doesn't lead to 
the opposite tendency to see everything exclusively from the lens of 
abundance. I think economics should be properly defined a study of 
*both* scarcity and abundance. It is the dynamics between these two 
opposites that determines the features of a particular economy.

Greetings to all,

Roberto

Joseph Jackson wrote:
> I tried initially to popularize the late Robert Levin's term 
> Agalmics:  http://www.openverse.com/~dtinker/agalmics.html 
> <http://www.openverse.com/%7Edtinker/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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto:agnucius at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>             On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Dante-Gabryell Monson
>             <dante.monson at gmail.com <mailto: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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