FRONTLINE “Generosity means on the net the nature of how it’s grown over 25 years is, is basically a gift economy. It hasn’t been an economy with money changing hands […]
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Bernard Lietaer Virtual communities today are ‘communities’ because social bonds have sprouted up around a ‘gift economy’ of open information exchange. Even the word ‘community’ itself (deriving from the Latin […]
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Howard Rheingold The Internet might be more than a new kind of marketplace and a new medium for exchanging money as we know it. If Bernard Lietaer and others are […]
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Reason Reviews: The Man Who Grew Young by Daniel Quinn
Words by Daniel Quinn and Illustrations by Tim Eldred Deja Vu: Humanity in Reverse by Reason Wilken At some point in our lives, most of us have wished that we could do […]
Continue readingDownsizing, another word for out of work!
by Compassion Most individuals entangled in the horror of corporate downsizing and restructuring respond with moral outrage. There is a general consensus among the victims and potential victims that mechanisms […]
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Genevieve Vaughan Nature offers her abundance free to satisfy the needs that nature and culture have created. Humans have altered this process by depleting the abundance, cornering what remains, and […]
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Henry Kissinger “Today American’s would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful. This is especially true if they were told there […]
Continue readingMy Thoughts on Love
huang chin lung Where there is no respect, there is no love; where there is no mercy, no pity, no forgiveness, there is no love. And as most of us […]
Continue readingThe Gift Economy
Gifford Pinchot The first step toward a sustainable sense of success is taking pride in the value of our contributions to others rather than taking pride in the value of […]
Continue readingA Decentralized Architecture for Gift Economies
J. Carrico In contemporary society, we are accustomed to islands of abundance within deserts of scarcity, islands which must be defended against a constant pressure. Western ideas about economics are […]
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