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

[Michel Bauwens]

thanks Kevin, makes perfect sense ..

Michel

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Kevin Carson <
free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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
>
> This  would IMO be throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
>
> We need a body of thought for dealing with goods that are naturally
> scarce and take effort to produce, and things like supply schedules
> and demand curves are suited to the task.  What we need is a
> meta-paradigm that treats scarcity as one special case and serves as a
> general theory incorporating both scarcity and abundance.  And we need
> a more rigorous analysis when it comes to distinguishing natural  from
> artificial scarcity, and examining the causes and effects of the
> latter.
>
> It's not so much that the principles of economics are rotten to the
> core as the power interests by which they are currently being
> interpreted and used.  The basic concepts are contested terrain that
> can be recuperated and turned against the neoliberals.
>
> --
> Kevin Carson
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>



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