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Category Archives: New Economy Movement
Minimizing Competition, Maximizing Extraction
A few things I read recently strike me as good (make that “painful”) examples of how the dominant incumbent ISPs are continuing their quest to minimize competition and thereby maximize financial extraction. The first relates to anti-competitive developments in the … Continue reading
My Broadband Pipe Dream, Part II: How might we get there from here?
Having set the conceptual stage for a “generative” Internet access strategy in Part I of this two-part post, I’d like dig a little deeper here into the “what” and “how.” As I said in Part I, and as suggested by … Continue reading
My Broadband Pipe Dream, Part I: Review & Stage-Setting
In this post I hope to tie to together some threads of analysis explored in earlier posts, with the goal of setting the stage for a follow-up post that will outline what I’ll call my “broadband pipe dream.” So let’s … Continue reading
Owning our Networks: Applying Generative Ownership Design to Internet Access
In an earlier post I discussed Marjorie Kelly’s new book “Owning our Future,” which contrasts “extractive” ownership with “generative” ownership. I want to follow up on that post here, with a focus on Internet access, which I’ve been discussing in … Continue reading
From “Extractive” to “Generative” Ownership
I recently read a new book by Marjorie Kelly entitled “Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution. As it’s extended title indicates, the book allows readers to join Kelly on what she describes as Journeys to a Generative Economy. I’d highly recommend … Continue reading
Archi’s Acres: A Single Solution to Multiple Problems
This morning I read a post by Dylan Ratigan announcing he was leaving MSNBC and a 15 year career in financial journalism (and an annual compensation said to be in the $1 mil. range) to more directly work with the … Continue reading
Rethinking “Productivity”
This post was prompted in part by a recent New York Times opinion piece by Tim Jackson, professor of sustainable development at the University of Surry, and author of “Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet.” The provocative title … Continue reading
MMT & the New Economy Movement: A Macro-Micro Marriage?
In a recent post I discussed both Modern Monetary Theory and the New Economy Movement. As that and a subsequent post indicated, MMT reflects a distinctly macroeconomic perspective, focused as it is on macro-level account balances; aggregate demand and price … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Modern Monetary Theory, New Economy Movement
Tagged Bill Mitchell, MMT, New Economy Movement
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New Perspectives on the Economy
Since economics is supposed to be the study of the exchange of value and (hopefully) the increase in prosperity and well-being among human beings, it will be a central thread of future discussion on this site. The general perspective I’ll … Continue reading
Posted in Communication Policy, Economics, Human Evolution, Modern Monetary Theory, New Economy Movement, New Growth Theory, Political Reform
Tagged banking, Bill Black, community wealth-building, economics, evolutionary reconstruction, Gar Alperovitz, generative economy, Institute for New Economic Thinking, MMT, Modern Monetary Theory, New Economic Perspectives, New Economics Institute, The Democracy Collaborative
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Evolving Human Systems 