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2020-04-05

The horror films got it wrong. This virus has turned us into caring neighbours

Across the world, Covid-19 has triggered community action on a vast scale. It’s a powerful riposte to both government and private money There is no guarantee that this resurgence of collective action will survive the pandemic. We could revert to the isolation and passivity that both capitalism and statism have encouraged. But I don’t think […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Commons-Based Peer Production, Digital Commons, Digital Economy, Digital Environment, digital public commons, Future of community, Self-Governance, Self-Organization, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2019-03-07

The Moral Case for Busting Bureaucracy

Gary Hamel & Michele Zanini If we continue to assume that some people are intelligent or creative, while most are not, and continue to see intelligence and creativity as fixed, personal possessions, the options for the needed large-scale systemic changes will be few. Belief systems are contagious. If, over an extended period of time, people […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Bureaucracy, Citizens, Command-Control, Empowerment, Hierarchy, Scaling Learning, Self-Organization, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2018-10-14

How to Destroy Neoliberalism: Kill ‘Homo Economicus’

Debunking the failed paradigm of traditional economics. This piece is adapted from a speech delivered September 30th at MIT, where Nick Hanauer won the 2018 Harvard and MIT Humanist of the Year award.  I’m thrilled to receive this award from such distinguished hosts—but I won’t lie: When I was told I would be honored as […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Future of Economy, Homo Economicus, Market Governance, Market-as-Commons, Self-Organization, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2018-07-29

TThe Tragedy of the Commons: How Elinor Ostrom Solved One of Life’s Greatest Dilemmas

The design principles for solving the tragedy of the commons can be applied to all groups As an evolutionary biologist who received my PhD in 1975, I grew up with Garrett Hardin’s essay “The Tragedy of the Commons,” published in Science magazine in 1968. His parable of villagers adding too many cows to their common pasture captured […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Commons, Complexity, Governance, New Economy, Political-Economy, Self-Governance, Self-Organization, Tragedy of Unmanaged Commons Leave a Comment

2018-03-05

Would Twitter Ruin Bee Democracy?

Simple-majority democracy is used by many animals. But they don’t have social media. Did the ancient Athenians invent democracy? Or did bugs have it way earlier than the Greeks? Cornell entomologist Tom Seeley knows which option he’s voting for. Honeybees regularly split from their mother colony. Seeley wondered, with tens of thousands of bees in […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Democracy, fake news, Quorum Sensing, Self-Governance, Self-Organization, Social Decisioning, Social Trust, Social-Political Structures, values Leave a Comment

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