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My hope is that in our current paradigm where capital is abundant and people pay millions of dollars for JPEGs of rocks, social value - as measured by the impact our actions have within a larger system - will displace monetary value as the primary pursuit of economic actors
Sam McCarthy • Governance as a Source of Value
Our current instruments and infrastructures are struggling to cope. Traditional employment contracts enforce rigidity, property rights are divisive and major institutions like the International Monetary Fund only consider narrow, money-centred definitions of value.Developing civic infrastructures such as food forests would reduce strain upon global... See more
Dark Matter Labs • Radicle Civics – Unconstituting Society 071022.pdf
Financial poverty and time poverty, which often go hand in hand, often form an insurmountable barrier to participation. We will have to address and remove all structural and cultural obstacles so that everyone can contribute, understanding people
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
Economist Per Bylund once noted: “The concept of economic value is easy: whatever someone wants has value, regardless of the reason (if any).” Not utility, not profits—just whether people want it or not, for any reason. So much of what happens in the economy is rooted in emotions, which can, at times, be nearly impossible to make sense of.
Morgan Housel • Same as Ever: Timeless Lessons on Risk, Opportunity and Living a Good Life
However we tackle these interwoven challenges, one thing is clear: economic theory will play a defining role. Economics is the mother tongue of public policy, the language of public life, and the mindset that shapes society. ‘In these early decades of the twenty-first century, the master story is economic: economic beliefs, values and assumptions a
... See moreKate Raworth • Doughnut Economics: The must-read book that redefines economics for a world in crisis
One of the biggest challenges Art Angel faces – and which, in turn, the imagination faces – is how to thrive in a world that wants to quantitatively assess and evaluate everything, what the author Rebecca Solnit calls ‘systems of accounting that can’t count what matters’.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism (Performance Interventions)
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for art to serve social imagination, it has to be organised in ways that allow time for it to be absorbed and adapted, so that it becomes an act of co-creation rather than just an act of consumption or an enjoyable way to pass the evening.15 If it is only an object for the passing gaze, then it is, perhaps, bound to fail. Experiences that are share
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