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a participatory economics

mark | July 16, 2011

on Parecon (Participatory Economics – Life after Capitalism), by Michael Albert A lucid attempt to outline the key principles, characteristics, and potential workings of an economic system based on collaborative, bottom-up planning of both production and consumption by self-managed and networked organisations – layered networks of worker and consumer councils managing a process whereby essentially [...]

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A centre for reclaimed work

mark | August 22, 2010

A friend told me yesterday: if you want to find something, it probably exists.  If it doesn’t, you can start it. Well, this is something that I would dearly love to exist.  So I guess I’ll find it or start it..? A centre for reclaimed work It’s a space for anyone who has ever thought, [...]

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Grassroots work

mark | May 11, 2010

I want to take the chance to zoom in on on angle of that last, winding, post… This is about one shift in perspective, one question: What if the work (briefly explored earlier) imposed upon us by the collective dealings and aspirations of a commercially successful group of individuals, were instead created in a grassroots [...]

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