Reflecting on the various arguments I’ve come across for moving beyond capitalism, I thought of one of my favorite …
Wageless Life
The authors of Wageless Life: A Manifesto for a Future beyond Capitalism build an impassioned, effective, and …
The New Localism (ain’t so new)
I have little doubt that whatever After Capitalism system emerges will feature a greater emphasis on local matters. This …
The global question for “After Capitalism”
A critical uncertainty affecting the timing of After Capitalism is whether it can happen locally and regionally, or must …
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Three Horizons of After Capitalism
Here’s how After Capitalism is using the handy Horizons Framework. It is intended primarily to show the evolution of the …
Imagining After Capitalism Graphic
And now for something completely different. I was playing around with an updated graphic for the three positive visions …
Capitalism in Context
And [finally] some thoughts on Volume 3, The Perspective of the World from Braudel’s Civilization and Capitalism series …
Walking Away from Capitalism
How will we get to “After Capitalism?” Perhaps we’ll simply walk away? That’s the idea of Cory Doctorow’s excellent and …
Capitalism coming full circle?
Some thoughts on Volume 2, The Wheels of Commerce from Braudel’s Civilization and Capitalism series (post on Volume 1) …
Ten things we could do if we did not have to work
It’s great to see my piece “Getting Ready for a Post-Work Future” published in Foresight and STI Governance. I blogged …
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Jobs as income is a distribution problem
In our series on a post-work future, last time we looked at how jobs providing structure to daily life would be a …
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Jobs provide structure to daily life
In our series looking at the possibility of a post-work future, last time we looked at how the centrality of work to our …
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Work is central to our identity
When you are introduced to someone, how long is it before you let them know what you do for work? And how soon do you …
A Post-Work Future May Take Longer Than We Think
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 Non-Tragedy of the Commons
Most of us have dutifully learned the Tragedy of the Commons, how unchecked individual interested overwhelms the group …
Visions, images, and utopias
I’m working on the explanation of what’s to come for After Capitalism. As regular readers are aware by now, three …
Pre-capitalism and post-capitalism
Braudel’s Civilization and Capitalism three-volume series has been in my “to-read” pile for many years. I’d heard many …
Avoiding Used Futures in After Capitalism
Part of my goal in putting together the After Capitalism research into a book (admittedly going too slowly!) is identify …
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A healthy fear of superintelligence
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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After Capitalism: The Symbiotic Economy
APF colleague Matthew Henry pointed me in the direction of Simbi, which is essentially a bartering site in which “you …
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I Am Not a Consumer: Values and After Capitalism
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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Commons or Commodities?
We might think about two polar opposite and perhaps extreme visions of the “after capitalism” future: commons, in which …
A class-y view on After Capitalism
Move aside proletariat. A precariat is emerging as a potential new class to the lead the transformation to an …
Four Futures After Capitalism
An interesting set of scenarios “after capitalism” from “Four Futures: Life After Capitalism.” The two key …