[P2P-F] A Perezian Framework for the P2P Techno-Economic Paradigm - By Vasilis Kostakis

Mon Jan 14 11:13:21 CET 2013

http://p2pfoundation.net/Perezian_Framework_for_the_P2P_Techno-Economic_Paradigm

Dear Vasilis, I'd love to excerpt from your paper, and it would be great if
you could scribd it, so we can embed it as well,

Michel

** Paper: At the Turning Point of the Current Techno-Economic Paradigm:
Commons-Based Peer Production, Desktop Manufacturing and the Role of Civil
Society in the Perezian Framework. tripleC 11(1): 173-190, 2013. By Vasilis
Kostakis.*

URL = http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/463/447
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]Abstract

"Following the theory of techno-economic paradigm shifts (TEPS), this paper
calls attention to the phenomenon of Commons-based peer production (CBPP).
In the context of the current paradigm, it argues that civil society can
play an important role in creating favourable conditions for a more
sustainable global knowledge society. Approaching tentatively the ways in
which 3D printing and other desktop manufacturing technologies can be used
in CBPP, it also explores the ways in which the partnership with the state
may provide a supportive innovative institutional basis for taking the
maximum advantage of the emerging synergies in the vein of TEPS theory." (
http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/463)

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]Introduction

This paper uses the theory of techno-economic paradigm shifts (TEPS) theory
– gradually developed by Kondratieff (1979), Schumpeter (1982/1939;
1975/1942), Freeman (1974; 1996), and in particular Carlota Perez (1983;
1985; 1988; 2002; 2009a; 2009b) – as its framework to develop its
narrative. This choice arguably helps recognise the dynamic and changing
nature of the capitalist system in order to avoid any particular’s period
extrapolation as “the end of history” in the fashion of Francis Fukuyama
(1992). The Perezian framework, as discussed later in more detail, can be
considered as a neo-Schumpeterianist approach influenced by
(neo-)Keynesiasm policies, that understands capitalism as a creative
destruction system. Therefore, the aim is not to make capitalism
crisis-free but to manage crises and soften blows or, in other words, to
make a successful “creative destruction management” (Kalvet and Kattel
2006). One should be aware of many other theoretical alternatives, such as
the Marxist ones, in understanding and acting within certain social,
technological and economic processes. It would be interesting to mention
that both Marxist and neoSchumpeterianist theoretical approaches consider
capitalism prone to crises which are basic features of its normal
functioning. However, the neo-Marxist critique (see Wolff 2010; Harvey
2007; 2010) puts emphasis on the inherent unsustainability of capitalism
aiming at a different system – “modern society can do better than
capitalism”, Wolff (2010) writes – whereas neoSchumpeterians, such as
Carlota Perez (2002) or Christopher Freeman (1974; 1996), see crises as a
chance for moving the capitalist economy forward. The take of this paper is
integrative trying to highlight the potential of new modes of social
production which are immanent in capitalism but, in the long term though,
might be transcendent to the dominant system. That is why we chose to
develop our narrative within the Perezian framework applying the
interpretative theory of TEPS."

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