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Albert: Routes To Economic Vision: Sustainability
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Michael Albert
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What is sustainability? This is a bit tricky, I think. Presumably it means operating in a fashion that is not self destructive. Regarding ecology, in other words, it means operating so that one isn't precluding continued operations in a similar ma...
Albert: Routes To Economic Vision: Classism
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Michael Albert
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Historically, a frequent route to trying to describe a better society is to demand classlessness. Classes are groups who share sufficient conditions and circumstances due to their economic position that they have broadly similar interests and mo...
Albert: Korean Parecon
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Michael Albert
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Yesterday I received in the mail the Korean edition of the book Parecon: Life After Capitalism. It is very elegant looking, but of course I couldn't read a word. If there is anyone out there from Korea who gets a copy of the book and reads through...
Albert: Routes to Economic Vision: Criminality
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Michael Albert
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Economies can have theft, fraud, etc. What would it mean to say we would like to have an economy that minimizes the likelihood of such occurrences? Well, the first possible meaning might be that we want an economy that has the death penalty for ...
Albert: Advocating Parecon: An Organization
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Michael Albert
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What about creating an organization of pareconists, so to speak? I don't know whether this would be positive if it were it to grow to considerable size, nor even whether it would grow at all, for that matter. So this is an idea that pounds away in...
Albert: Introducing Parecon
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Michael Albert
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It has quickly become clear that this blog needs some introduction to participatory economics...as well as including an accumulating array of posts that more or less presume at least modest familiarity. The following essay was written as the firs...
Albert: Advocating Parecon: Promotion
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Michael Albert
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One possible topic for a parecon blog is how to best advocate participatory economics and what experiences we have and lessons we learn in doing so. My own efforts at advocating parecon have been only modestly successful. They involve ... My own...
Albert: Routes to Economic Vision: Alienation
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Michael Albert
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Decades ago I came across a compelling definition of alienation, a concept not so easy to pin down even for those who use the word a lot. After all, how do you simultaneously capture psychological, sociological, economic, and other connotations? ...
Albert: Routes to Economic Vision: Exploitation
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Michael Albert
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By being exploitative we generally mean a condition in which some person or agency gets from our labors more than they ought to which in turn leaves us less than we deserve. Some own many mansions. Others live in cardboard shelters under bridges. ...
Albert: Routes To Economic Vision: Introduction
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Michael Albert
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In advocating participatory economics, I invariably follow a particular and for me familiar logic that moves from preferred values to desirable institutions. This blog is for exploring, so here I'd like to try to come at economic vision from dif...
Albert: Welcome to Goodbye Maggie
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Michael Albert
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This blog is for discussing economic vision, and particularly participatory economics. In deciding to set up some blogs within the rubric of ZNet, a little research suggested that titles should be creative. However, it is hard to do a creative t...
George: I updated my ZSpace
Blog Post, December, 31 1969
Justin George
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Ive updated my ZSpace with some stuff
