==== Sci-fi Economics Lab ====

some notes from the "scifi economics lab" https://scifieconomicslab.net/ 

introductions
  * https://edgeryders.eu/t/meet-the-lab-rats-a-thread-for-sci-fi-economics-lab-folks-to-introduce-themselves/11480

talks on 2019-11-11
  * Cory Doctorow, Tom Bauler and Kirsten Dunlop 
  * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i9lSDIIjH8

collective notes from the talks
  * https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GJfbJIvq933Yd7KQtxPDYKpHPIajC1kvGkG7w7eppCA/edit#heading=h.3h58ihwlhu2y 


**Cory Doctorow**

  * Peak indifference https://locusmag.com/2016/07/cory-doctorow-peak-indifference/ 
    * navigating shifts from 'denialism' to 'nihilism' as an activist
    * from awareness of issues, to awareness of possibilities
  * democratic shifts in ownership of digital infrastrucutre, digital feudualism -> cooperatives(?)
    * democratically owned means of production AND methods of allocation (e.g. uber as coop)
  * monopoly & oligarchic concentration -> eg. [[https://locusmag.com/2019/05/cory-doctorow-steering-with-the-windshield-wipers/][Luxottica]] 

**Tom Bauler** 

  * macroeconomic indicators beyond GDP
  * [[https://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/the-reinhart-and-rogoff-controversy-a-summing-up][The Reinhart and Rogoff Controversy: A Summing Up]]  (re. public debt rates, human error & replication)
  * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_economics 
  * focus on 'resources' is relatively recent in economics (circa ~1970) after long absence
  * principles of ecological economics 
    * list?

  * in creating alternatives, focus on what to replciate in existing sytems, as well as what needs to be removed/eliminated 

**various refs/further** 
    * comment from M. Bauwens, re Chiang Mai -> "hard to find ppl who want to work for money"
    * "changemakers" (via rob) -> https://www.changemakers.com/
    * capital poor / labour rich -> transitions in commons (ref. Ostrom)
    * pluralism, anit-monopoly, anti-oligarchy
    * parallels with emergence of 'ecology' as way of unifying concerns around existing issues, previously seen as disparate (e.g.  land conservation, species, clean air, etc) 
    * is there a current set of concerns (re. concentration, ologarchy, monoploies, etc) that can be unified with ecology, complexity, etc? (e.g. climate change & concentration of pro-wrestling leagues?)