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

Mon Jan 14 12:04:07 CET 2013

Michel,

For embedding the essay I've just uploaded here:
http://issuu.com/vasilisk/docs/463-1682-1-pb

Thank you :-)

Vasilis

On 14 January 2013 12:13, Michel Bauwens <michel at p2pfoundation.net> wrote:

>
> 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
>  [edit<http://p2pfoundation.net/Perezian_Framework_for_the_P2P_Techno-Economic_Paradigm?title=Perezian_Framework_for_the_P2P_Techno-Economic_Paradigm&action=edit&section=1>
> ]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)
>
>
> [edit<http://p2pfoundation.net/Perezian_Framework_for_the_P2P_Techno-Economic_Paradigm?title=Perezian_Framework_for_the_P2P_Techno-Economic_Paradigm&action=edit&section=2>
> ]Excerpts [edit<http://p2pfoundation.net/Perezian_Framework_for_the_P2P_Techno-Economic_Paradigm?title=Perezian_Framework_for_the_P2P_Techno-Economic_Paradigm&action=edit&section=3>
> ]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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