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2019-05-31

An economist explains how to value the internet

digital goods have three characteristics that are very different from previous goods. They’re virtually free, perfect and instant. What that means is the cost of making an additional copy of a digital good is basically zero; each copy is an identical, perfect replica of the original; and they can be distributed anywhere in the world […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Anti-Rival goods, Digital Economy, Digital Environment, Economic Paradigms, Value, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2018-08-08

Too Much of the Economy is Powerless

” We define market power as “the ability to skew market outcomes in one’s own interest, without creating value or serving the public good.” ECONOMIC INCLUSIONECONOMY & GROWTH By Marshall Steinbaum Today, the Roosevelt Institute released Powerless: How Lax Antitrust and Concentrated Market Power Rig the Economy Against American Workers, Consumers, and Communities, a report I wrote […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Economic Paradigms, Future of Political-Economy, Future of Work, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2017-11-17

FREE MONEY: THE SURPRISING EFFECTS OF A BASIC INCOME SUPPLIED BY GOVERNMENT

This is an interesting signal related to idea of universal basic income and uses a decades old effort as an exemplar – well worth the read. The casino money made it possible for him to support his young family, but the money his children will receive is potentially life-altering on a different scale. “If you’ve […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Abundance Economy, Digital Economy, Digital Environment, Economic Paradigms, Universal Basic Income, Value, values, Zero Marginal Cost Society Leave a Comment

2017-03-12

Re-imagining Value: Insights from the Care Economy, Commons, Cyberspace and Nature

A 62 page Deep Dive hosted by Commons Strategies Group in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation and David Graeber.   What is “value” and how shall we protect it?  It’s a simple question for which we don’t have a satisfactory answer. For conventional economists and politicians, the answer is simple:  value is essentially the same […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Accounting, Commons, Coordination Economy, Digital Environment, Economic Paradigms, Peer-Production, Platforms, Political-Economy, Value, values Leave a Comment

2017-02-25

How the Trump regime was manufactured by a war inside the Deep State

A 40 min must read – Illuminating the emerging visibility of the very complex domain of politics – the context within which people must solve global & local problems. President Donald Trump is not fighting a war on the establishment: he’s fighting a war to protect the establishment from itself, and the rest of us. At […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values, Economics, Geopolitics, Politics / Complexity, Corruption, Crime, culture, Democracy, Economic Paradigms, politics, values Leave a Comment

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