This young girl spoke about gifting after a gift circle….
Archive for February, 2012
Little girl on gifting
Posted in Uncategorized on February 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
On being, doing, and having in economics
Posted in Uncategorized on February 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Our economic system measures itself by how much people have, and what how much services are happening. What it doesn’t measure itself by is the state of beingness of the people in it – how connected they are with their deeper self, what states of consciousness they are in. A true economic theory will take [...]
Experimental anthropology
Posted in Uncategorized on February 22, 2012 | 2 Comments »
We have the ability to create and make up the underlying rules, customs, agreements, expectation fields, mannerisms, communication methodologies and live them out experimentally for an hour, a day, a week, a month…. In doing so we test drive new cultures, and see how they evolve, and how well they work. We can analyze these [...]
By-donation economics
Posted in Uncategorized on February 17, 2012 | 1 Comment »
When we offer classes or services by donation or with sliding scale prices we are doing something that is not covered by traditional neoclassical Adam Smith-descendent supply and demand economic analysis. By-donation and sliding-scale economics have had barely any economic theory written about them. I’ve never run across it any economic textbooks. That doesn’t mean [...]