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

[Michel Bauwens]

As I see it there are two options here,

- 'reform' or 'transform' economics, even though it is rotten to the core
and the core ideology of oppression and destruction of the biosphere

- do away with it altogether and start anew

It seems to me that most 'alternative' heterodox thinkers still work on
'rescuing' economics from its neoclassical ideologues ... and this may
indeed be a necessary transition towars the kind of integrated provisioning
science and decision-making that we need (as defined by Marvin Brown)

and that seems to incude Roberto as well, and the first step seems indeed to
redefinie the discipline away from its focus on maintaining and creating
scarcity at all costs ..

question: what do we know of attempts that aim to do completely away with
'economics' ?

Michel

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 3:38 AM, Kevin Carson <
free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com> wrote:

> > 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, 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" ?
>
> Well, I don't think Mises would consider it economics at all, since
> both he and Menger (the founder of the Austrian school) defined
> abundant goods ("too cheap to meter") as "noneconomic goods."
>
> I suppose there could be a meta branch of economics concerning the
> shifting balance between economic and non-economic goods, or the
> increasing share of consumption that comes from the non-economic
> realm.
>
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