Conceptually it would be nice to have ever multiplying money, but the physical systems of the economy are not cooperating.
Hybrid models of how money systems are linked to the physical world, show why money is putting dangerously increasing performance demands on the underperforming physical assets. Those demands need to be understood and relieved, by some […]
Most of the popular alternative economy proposals I read about hold out a hope we can reduce the complexity of society and return to self-reliance, somehow keeping our modern culture and character. I really don’t think that’s remotely possible. There’s no sliding scale of time. The future can only be built from the the present.
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Susan Witt, director of BurkShares community currency system presented on the Finance Lab Webinar today and I got to ask her to clarify how it eliminated the excess growth of debt. Then I thought of how the macro-economic solution Keynes first proposed could be usefully built into the design of local currencies to make them […]
How a body comes to become self-organized begins with the perfection of a single cell and then a furious multiplication of their numbers and connections of increasingly complex design. Outside observers may know what the overall plan is from similar events before, but no cell does. As independent organisms themselves the cells just work it […]
A bit of satire and “noosphere” jokes, following my comment to Dot Earth on an otherwise excellent discussion of global warming strategy:
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As smart and practical as Richard Black’s or other Dot Earth commentary is, it still doesn’t address the underlying physical world problem. The entire warming mitigation strategy relies of perpetual economic […]
Responding to a somewhat ‘edgy’ physics blog post, How to build a Multiverse, about the “creation of adjacent spaces with their own laws of physics”. The “general case” posted as #comment-219799
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It’s actually less ‘hokey’ than it sounds. Discovering small worlds with their own original “laws of nature” is not in the least bit uncommon. It […]
From a note to Steve & Keith on how to account for the physical and financial processes of economies, prompted by a model of resource supply chains and nutrient cycles in the natural economies of ecosystems, from Robert Ulanowicz (1)
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Thanks. I’ve seen that model in his books before, and understand it conceptually. It’s about depicting […]
a new lead to the “Bump on a curve notepad”
Make believe that you are in a vehicle, born there, and didn’t realize it needed to be steered or could be, and you find yourself part of the first generation of humans to realize that. With there being no established method for doing it, no one […]