The Joust and The Potlatch as Social Alternatives
The Joust, founded on substitution and economic conflict of interest, stresses material gain. The Potlatch thrives on nonphysical values, seeking complementarities in learning and social designs.
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Novel Overtures to the More-than-Human World
In recent weeks, I’ve noticed a big uptick in the number of creative overtures to the realm previously known as nature (a term that implies that humanity and nature are separate). I decided to bring together some of the more imaginative gambits that I’ve encountered.
Fountain Pen as Bellwether
Fountain pen collecting is a subject of almost no consequence compared to topics I usually write about—climate change, resource depletion, and economic inequality. But it does offer another, perhaps less obviously worrisome and more entertaining, way of understanding the times we inhabit.
Commons and Enclosures
Yes. Cultures are what people do. The future is created by present actions – for better and for worse. Targets, achievements, status… can change nothing.
A new book tells us what is really behind the ‘K-shaped recovery’
The Asset Economy, a new monograph published by Polity Books may help shed some light on the economic structures that could provoke this unusual K-shaped economic phenomenon.
Andreas Weber on Aliveness and Interdependence
If I may crudely summarize Andreas’ thinking in a sentence or two: relationality, aliveness, subjectivity, and wholeness are central to the functioning of healthy living systems.
COVID-19 has made the super-rich richer. It’s time for a billionaire wealth tax
Today’s massive concentrations of wealth and power are disruptive to democratic institutions, social cohesion, and economic stability for all. It’s time for a billionaire wealth tax.
From What If to What Next: with Dr. Wanda Wyporska and Chuck Collins
In my latest podcast we are exploring how it would be if Feeney’s thinking were to be embraced by those holding the vast reserves of money that the world needs to address its complex problems right now. What if they shifted and recognised the need to let go of what they’re holding onto? And how would it feel to do so?
Three Cities Switching To Life-Affirming Economies
At its most basic level, doughnut economics is a way of describing an economic system that extends beyond strictly financial measures, like gross domestic product, to include environmental sustainability and healthy, thriving communities.
Capital Versus Biosphere: An Eco-social Agenda Fit for the Times
The push to ensure that public interests, the decommodification of fundamental rights, and cooperation prevail demands a new eco-social agenda that aims to be hegemonic. This agenda should focus on three key aspects: biodiversity, the local, and energy transition.
Caring for Change: Our Degrowth is Intersectional!
The Covid-19 pandemic has made all the more evident what feminists have long argued, namely that care work – especially direct care work which involves a relation between a caregiver and a care receiver – is the foundation of our economy and society.
Nomadland: The Lifetime Impacts of Gender-Bias in Wages
For example, why do women retire with significantly lower Social Security benefits, after a lifetime of gender prejudiced earnings?
