What do we call the Next Economy?
In my previous post on “Planning for Two Economic Futures” I promised to provide some of the names that have been suggested for the next economy. I had gathered a dozen or so title from my NORA talk on...
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Money money money & capitalism
Framework Foresight and other foresight methods suggest that any exploration into the future be accompanied by a look backward into the recent history. So, as part of our ongoing exploring into what’s...
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The Next Book: What’s After Capitalism?
After five or so years of keeping one eye on concepts for what might follow capitalism, it’s time! The topic is so super interesting to me. I preach to follow your interests and what you love, so…..The...
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Aspiring to Betterness
The journey exploring what’s after capitalism keeps getting more interesting. The plot continues to thicken. Betterness: Economics for Humans, by Umair Haque, provides an inspirational view of how the...
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Preparing for a World that Doesn’t Yet Exist
Preparing for a World That Doesn’t Exist – Yet made me think. And for that, I judge it a success. It was interestingly timed, as I was just reviewing Srnicek & Williams Inventing the Future, which...
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Jobs or Tasks?
The Shift Commission released a nice report on the future of work looking ahead 10-20 years. Four almost-inevitable forces (predetermineds in our parlance): An aging workforce; The decline of...
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Wiring or Choice?
I’ve got a few books to review for the blog for “After Capitalism” that come at what’s next from different perspectives. Abundance from Peter Diamandis of Singularity U believes in tapping into the...
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Balanced View of Emerging AI & Automation
One the one hand, “we are at an inflection point—the early stages of a shift as profound as that brought on by the Industrial Revolution.” On the other, “We are also skeptical of efforts to come up...
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From Apartness to Integrated
I have been working through ideas about “what’s after capitalism,” and think about what’s wrong and what could be right, ,and what could be useful/helpful/sensible visions. I keep coming back to the...
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The Sharing Economy Transition
In my emerging scheme for organizing the concepts for what’s next and after capitalism, I am placing the sharing economy and its brothers and sisters in the Horizon Two Zone of Transition (and...
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Visions looks forward, not backward
This Sunday’s NY Times, alongside a piece chortling about the problems that Roy Moore is causing Republicans, featured five Democratic leaders providing a message for their party. Surely the stunning...
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Reframing After Capitalism
I introduced a new framing of the “After Capitalism” project a few weeks ago in a post on “transition.” Let’s look more closely at this reframing, which often happens several times in a book project,...
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Signal: Men without Work
Nicholas Eberstadt of American Enterprise Institute provides helpful insight into an issue that “after capitalism” is going to need to address: lack of jobs, or to extend forward, imagining a world...
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The Neoliberal Capitalist Story
“Social responsibility”….[is a] fundamentally subversive doctrine” in a free society….“there is one and only one social responsibility of business—to use its resources and engage in activities designed...
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Shrinking the [formal] Economy
We have made money more important than it should be. The economy is bigger than it should be. Charles Eisenstein in Sacred Economics suggests a new approach to money and the economy – namely, less of...
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Reformation or Transformation
A key question that has consistently informed the research and books that I’ve been going through in this “After Capitalism” journey can be summed as: reformation or transformation [of capitalism]. Can...
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Abundance: Tech to the Rescue
The title says it all: Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think. If you’re a true believer in technology (technology will solve our problems), take comfort that “within a generation, we will be...
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After Capitalism Visions Taking Shape
Small steps forward. It’s helpful in research to step back everyone once in and while and assess or re-assess where you are. I’m happy with this structure (see “reframing”) “signals” emanating from...
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For those who prefer video, or listening, I’m posting a video summary of my After Capitalism ideas. It was recorded as part of third annual APF Virtual Gathering on September 15, 2017. It’s 24 hours of...
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Reformation or Transformation
A key question that has consistently informed the research and books that I’ve been going through in this “After Capitalism” journey can be summed as: reformation or transformation [of capitalism]. Can...
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