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RE: Stupid ideas and innovations Posted by: @thardin R&D is a thing even in planned economies. One simply needs a method to furnish innovators with the necessary resources, for example Parecon's facilitation boards. Capitalists are ... |
In forum Computational Economics |
2 years ago |
Stupid ideas and innovations I agree that in general, when it comes to utilities and the production of basic goods - such like food, connectors, tools and construction materials, as well when it comes to running an infrastructure... |
In forum Computational Economics |
2 years ago |
RE: The great simplification Posted by: @thardin @enrique_lescure The value of money is emphatically not subjective. It is useful and will continue to be useful until something more useful replaces it. You cannot for example get... |
In forum Environmental Economics & Ecology |
2 years ago |
RE: The great simplification 9:40 "Money is ultimately a direct claim on energy and resources" this is true in a sense but ignores the social power of money, the ability to command the labour of another (see Adam Smith). There ar... |
In forum Environmental Economics & Ecology |
2 years ago |
RE: The great simplification @thardin "29:50 This is actually wrong. We have plenty of ways to make more energy available to the human economy. It's just that using petroleum has required less labour historically, and has therefo... |
In forum Environmental Economics & Ecology |
2 years ago |
The great simplification Thoughts on this: The main question is: Are they wrong? And, if they are right, what are the implications? I would say that it is absolutely necessary to manage the planet's resources in a scientif... |
In forum Environmental Economics & Ecology |
2 years ago |
RE: Resilience How long ahead on the road have you guys come? |
In forum Logistics |
2 years ago |
RE: Resilience Posted by: @thardin Posted by: @enrique_lescure The question then is: "Why not link up several communes?" Yes this is exactly what me and Dave propose. If we reduce the rate of dependency, and m... |
In forum Logistics |
2 years ago |
RE: Resilience Posted by: @thardin Yes, workers who spend time working for the commune/whatever will get better "leverage" out of their labour. This leverage is precisely the rate of exploitation plus 100%. If the ... |
In forum Logistics |
2 years ago |
Resilience I am not stating that this methodology of expansion of post-capitalist systems is a substitute for political struggle. That would be naïvety. However, the question is *why* would people in capitalist ... |
In forum Logistics |
2 years ago |
RE: The EOS & Energy Accounting Posted by: @thardin @enrique_lescure The actual "carrying capacity" is vector valued, not a scalar. When you project all these different use-values onto the scalar "exergy" then you're throwing infor... |
In forum Environmental Economics & Ecology |
2 years ago |
RE: The EOS & Energy Accounting To revisit the topic. Energy Accounting exists to measure the total exergy of our carrying capacity - thus determining the size of the economy of society during a specific time-frame. If we would add ... |
In forum Environmental Economics & Ecology |
2 years ago |
RE: The girth of the Earth - carrying capacity @thardin Of course there are. The question is whether what metric we should use and what information the metric provides. |
In forum Environmental Economics & Ecology |
2 years ago |
RE: The EOS & Energy Accounting Posted by: @thardin Posted by: @enrique_lescure How then do you suggest that we do not extend above our carrying capacity? With planning aka calculation in kind. No plan that exceeds the carrying... |
In forum Environmental Economics & Ecology |
2 years ago |
RE: The girth of the Earth - carrying capacity @casperadmin I am all for planning in this regard. Actually, my colleague Lilium Carlson is developing a software designed to accomplish this task. |
In forum Environmental Economics & Ecology |
2 years ago |