Video from Deeper in debt talk by David Graeber
The talk consisted mostly of some of the highlights of his book Debt: The First 5,000 Years. Highly recommended whether or not you’ve read the book. Video on socialcam
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The bow-tie, the law of requisite variety, and the global economy
John Robb has written an essay viewing the consolidation of the global economy as an instance of the bow-tie formalism from the theory of control systems. Here’s a diagram of the idea as applied to adversarial situations in human society, …
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Video of John Robb’s Open Source Venture Talk
Thanks to Andrew Hasse of East Bay Films, we now have a video of John Robb’s talk from March. We had a lot of interesting discussion during the long question-and-answer period at the end of the talk that you shouldn’t …
Food Markets and the Interesting Case of Fontaines-en-Sologne
I came across the anthology Do Economists Make Markets? On the Performativity of Economics edited by Donald MacKenzie, Fabian Muniesa, and Lucia Siu which takes on the question of what kinds of feedback loops, if any, exist between economics and …
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Marcin Jakubowski’s TED talk
Our congratulations again to Marcin Jakubowski, who spoke for us last year, on his TED fellowship. His TED talk is now available for viewing.
John Robb’s Open Source Ventures
The Bay Area Community Exchange presents John Robb, author of Brave New War and originator of the concept of “open source warfare†which predicted many of the patterns of conflict observed in the recent revolutions sweeping North Africa and the Middle East. Now …