thanks Kevin, makes perfect sense ..<br><br>Michel<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Kevin Carson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:free.market.anticapitalist@gmail.com">free.market.anticapitalist@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Michel Bauwens <<a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> As I see it there are two options here,<br>
><br>
> - 'reform' or 'transform' economics, even though it is rotten to the core<br>
> and the core ideology of oppression and destruction of the biosphere<br>
><br>
> - do away with it altogether and start anew<br>
<br>
</div>This �would IMO be throwing the baby out with the bathwater.<br>
<br>
We need a body of thought for dealing with goods that are naturally<br>
scarce and take effort to produce, and things like supply schedules<br>
and demand curves are suited to the task. �What we need is a<br>
meta-paradigm that treats scarcity as one special case and serves as a<br>
general theory incorporating both scarcity and abundance. �And we need<br>
a more rigorous analysis when it comes to distinguishing natural �from<br>
artificial scarcity, and examining the causes and effects of the<br>
latter.<br>
<br>
It's not so much that the principles of economics are rotten to the<br>
core as the power interests by which they are currently being<br>
interpreted and used. �The basic concepts are contested terrain that<br>
can be recuperated and turned against the neoliberals.<br>
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