my argument is that humans are more
relational, ‘gift-exchanging animals’ who are naturally disposed to cooperate
for mutual benefit. In the following I will attempt to show how such an
alternative anthropology can translate into a ‘civil economy’ and
transformative policy ideas: rebuilding our economy and embedding welfare in
communities.
Wired publishes the full Manning-Lamo chat logs - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - 0 views
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Yesterday -- more than a full year after it first released selected portions of purported chat logs between Bradley Manning and government informant Adrian Lamo (representing roughly 25% of the logs) -- Wired finally published the full logs (with a few redactions). From the start, Wired had the full chat logs and was under no constraints from its source (Lamo) about what it could publish; it was free to publish all of it but chose on its own to withhold most of what it received.
Building a civil economy | openDemocracy - 6 views
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In the wake of Marcel Mauss’ work on the gift, this model emerged as a legitimate way of rethinking economics: humans are naturally social animals with dispositions to cooperate in the quest for the common good in which all can partake.
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Building on Polanyi and G. D. H. Cole’s guild socialism, one can suggest that an embedded model means that elected governments have the duty to create the civic space in which workers, businesses and communities can regulate economic activity and direct the ‘free flow’ of globally mobile capital to productive activities that benefit the many, not the few.
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