One of the challenges to jumpstarting a local economy is that it usually requires setting up a local economy program that needs buy-in from a lot of people. This initial energetic barrier to jumpstarting an economy can be lowered if we instead start a hyper-local economy. A hyper-local economy’s small scale initiation requires less effort. [...]
Archive for October, 2010
On creating a local gift economy part II
Posted in Uncategorized on October 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On creating a local gift economy part I
Posted in Uncategorized on October 25, 2010 | 3 Comments »
We had a number of experiments over the years in attempting to create a gift economy in our town before the gift circle was arrived at. There are a number of social design issues in trying to come up with getting a gift economy going. How do you get people to contribute? How do you [...]
Gift circle resources
Posted in Uncategorized on October 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Here are some links to key info on the gift circle Resources about the gift circle: Gift circle faq The gift circle book video on gift circle Another video on the gift circle video of talk on gift circles gift circle principles. Practice and theory of the gift circle essay ; A woman blogs about [...]
Gift economy intellectual resources
Posted in Uncategorized on October 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
A list of references, papers and books related to gift economies. Mutual aid by Petr Kropotkin. About the theory of anarcho-communism which is the idea the idea of tribal based non-hierarchical self-organizing gift economies. “The Gift” by Marcel Mauss, an anthropological look at gifting in various societies “Economics and morality : anthropological approaches” anthology edited [...]
The gift circle book is here!
Posted in Uncategorized on October 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/giftcirclebook/12915276
