The After Capitalism research has identified three categories of visions of a world in which capitalism is no longer the …
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The After Capitalism research has identified three categories of visions of a world in which capitalism is no longer the …
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Most of us have dutifully learned the Tragedy of the Commons, how unchecked individual interested overwhelms the group …
I’m working on the explanation of what’s to come for After Capitalism. As regular readers are aware by now, three …
Braudel’s Civilization and Capitalism three-volume series has been in my “to-read” pile for many years. I’d heard many …
Part of my goal in putting together the After Capitalism research into a book (admittedly going too slowly!) is identify …
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[insert rant] We have a perfect flow of information in a perfect market to make just the precise transactions whenever, …
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The After Capitalism research started by collecting interesting “new or next economy” concepts. They’ve been analyzed, …
I was working my way through the Horizon 2 transition concepts for After Capitalism when a wonderful listserv …
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I finally got around to 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years by Jorgen Randers. Randers has been part of the …
We had a nice discussion on the APF list last week that started out on the gig economy and ended up exploring ideas for …
This week we follow up on Degrowth with Prosperity without Growth from Professor Tim Jackson. It’s a different take in …
Is it okay yet to talk about degrowth in polite society or mixed company? Alas, I think it is quite okay in postmodern …
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Much has been written about inequality, such as Piketty’s wonderful treatise Capital. We hear about the 1%, the 10%, the …
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How do we get to our horizon three visions? Gar Alperovitz suggests that “Reform” concepts suggest changes or …
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Homo Deus explored the possibility of a new human species emerging. If that wasn’t enough to persuade you that we need …
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For those who prefer video, or listening, I’m posting a video summary of my After Capitalism ideas. It was recorded as …
Sorting through and synthesizing the now 19 concepts fitting with what we’re calling the “sustainable commons” vision of …
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Homo Deus makes the provocative argument that technological progress has Homo Sapiens on the path to becoming a new …
This question emerged in a working session on the future of US and Mexico relations. In good Framework Foresight …
Small steps forward. It’s helpful in research to step back everyone once in and while and assess or re-assess where you …
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The title says it all: Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think. If you’re a true believer in technology …
A key question that has consistently informed the research and books that I’ve been going through in this “After …
“Social responsibility”….[is a] fundamentally subversive doctrine” in a free society….“there is one and only one social …
Nicholas Eberstadt of American Enterprise Institute provides helpful insight into an issue that “after capitalism” is …
I introduced a new framing of the “After Capitalism” project a few weeks ago in a post on “transition.” Let’s look more …
Last week we talked about the sharing economy as a transition stage to “after capitalism.” Intermediaries are an …
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In my emerging scheme for organizing the concepts for what’s next and after capitalism, I am placing the sharing economy …
I have been working through ideas about “what’s after capitalism,” and think about what’s wrong and what could be right, …
Shifting values are a key part of the “after capitalism” story. It’s not just about economics, it’s really about our way …
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One the one hand, “we are at an inflection point—the early stages of a shift as profound as that brought on by the …
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