[P2P-F] panoply qua commons

Sat Sep 10 18:13:38 CEST 2011

hi Tadit, if your flyers are also digital, we could scribd them and present
them as a series on the blog ...

(a series of 3 to start of with?)

any material on Georgism and the commons?

I did meet Peter LInebaugh ..

for the curious about Mary Parker Follet, see:
http://p2pfoundation.net/New_State

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 7:00 PM, <ideasinc at ee.net> wrote:

Michael,
>        One of my ongoing projects is a group of trifold flyers I've
> developed
> over time. These flyers have been a major portion of our effort toward
> economic literacy. Currently I have about forty different topics, and
> rated according to the difficulty of the content from basic, to
> intermediate, to an advanced level. Most of these flyers are posted at the
> Re-Imagining Economics web site. Aside from occasions through the year, I
> have shipped boxes of these flyers to different related conferences. Our
> one major local event at this point is an annual community festival which
> is held toward the end of June. We have two people there generally myself
> and a co-conspiritor Greg who focuses primarily upon commons related
> issues. Currently his big issue is fracking now been promoted and
> perpetrated through our state. I tend to be on my feet talking to people
> about commons based economics through a long list of topics for most of
> the three days
>
> I need to spend a bit of time defining the six likely topics, and will
> come back to you with this.
>
> On not knowing who I am,, but , but we are now facebook friends, doesn't
> that mean something? (smile: here*) Ok, I have twenty plus years working
> in and around cooperatives, doing cooperative orientations is one project
> that I started with. At one point I branched off into economic history
> toward developing a more commons and people's version of economic history,
> picking up on various sympathetic historians and economists. Peter
> Linebaugh is one of my favorites, if that name means anything for you.
> Mary Parker Follet is another name that is not part of the usual household
> vocabulary, and she made a major contribution to commoning through
> cooperating communities including workplace cooperation as a commons. She
> was re-discovered by Peter Drucker relatively early in his career. The
> issue of the commons within economics has multiple barriers, including the
> basic nature of the applied philosophy of science and related metaphysics,
> and the ambient set of assumptions under the divine right of capital as
> management.
>
> I will return to you in a day or so to provide a possible list. One big
> fallacy is related to a bait and switch process wherein progressive values
> and virtues are declared but the actual economics don't match the declared
> values. Another is the assumption that a small "d" democratic process, as
> in by majority rule, and a low economic literacy can produce a commons
> based economics. A similar version exploits the expectations of
> "community," "freedom," and other familiar iconic words with high
> emotional value that tend to be discredited by the actual results.
>
> As to the accessibility of this sort of of over view, that will be at
> least served well by engagement through a blogging process. Again, I will
> give you a list of six or more themes with a thumbnail synopsis for each.
>
> more as we go, Tadit Anderson
>
>
>
> On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 22:44:50 -0400, Michel Bauwens
> <michel at p2pfoundation.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi Tadit,
> >
> > the 6 examples you have could be the basis of a series and make it into a
> > later book?
> >
> > should I add you to our list of commons-oriented economist? I don't
> > think I
> > know  who you are so far ....?
> >
> > Michel
>
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