The After Capitalism work requires challenging myths, assumptions, and beliefs that will be uncomfortable to let go of. …
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Technology and After Capitalism
NOTE: Longer-than-typical post as I try to briefly summarize the impact of accelerating technology change on After …
A Futures Magic Wand
If you had a magic wand that could successfully challenge one current widespread assumption about the future, what would …
Alter-Worlds
The newly added “Alter-Worlds” concept of After Capitalism comes from Shaw and Waterstone's manifesto “Wageless Life.” …
Visions of the future over time
Back in 1995, influential economist Robert Heilbroner was given the opportunity to look at the role of visions in …
Directory of After Capitalism Blog Posts
I am [finally] get closer to finishing the book. I thought it would to useful to gather and review the blog posts I've …
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Economic growth and the future
In the the After Capitalism research, there seems to be pretty clear consensus that economic growth has to be either …
Doughnut Economics: Light and Tasty
I debated whether to include doughnut economics from Kate Raworth as one Horizon 3 images of After Capitalism. A recent …
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After Capitalism Drivers
Do you want to play a game? (yes, a Saw reference) While I’ve continued scanning for the After Capitalism book, a few …
After Capitalism: Evolution or Revolution?
Decay, collapse, the end of, revolution. It seems that every day now I see a story about the end of capitalism. Since I …
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Utopia is a moving target
We are probably never going to achieve utopia. What a negative, pessimistic thing to say! Have I turned sour on the …
9 Shifts for After Capitalism
Reflecting on the various arguments I’ve come across for moving beyond capitalism, I thought of one of my favorite …
Wageless Life
The authors of Wageless Life: A Manifesto for a Future beyond Capitalism build an impassioned, effective, and …
The New Localism (ain’t so new)
I have little doubt that whatever After Capitalism system emerges will feature a greater emphasis on local matters. This …
The global question for “After Capitalism”
A critical uncertainty affecting the timing of After Capitalism is whether it can happen locally and regionally, or must …
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Three Horizons of After Capitalism
Here’s how After Capitalism is using the handy Horizons Framework. It is intended primarily to show the evolution of the …
The Sufficiency Economy
Planned economic contraction? Indeed, brace yourself for the challenging but perhaps necessary future of degrowth. This …
Utopia for Realists
Rutger Bregman, an influential proponent of Universal Basic Income delivers an excellent addition to our After …
Imagining After Capitalism Graphic
And now for something completely different. I was playing around with an updated graphic for the three positive visions …
Fully Automated Luxury Communism
Author Aaron Bastani boldly uses the “C” word – communism – as part of his vision for an after capitalism future – Fully …
Capitalism in Context
And [finally] some thoughts on Volume 3, The Perspective of the World from Braudel’s Civilization and Capitalism series …
Walking Away from Capitalism
How will we get to “After Capitalism?” Perhaps we’ll simply walk away? That’s the idea of Cory Doctorow’s excellent and …
Ten things we could do if we did not have to work
It’s great to see my piece “Getting Ready for a Post-Work Future” published in Foresight and STI Governance. I blogged …
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Jobs as income is a distribution problem
In our series on a post-work future, last time we looked at how jobs providing structure to daily life would be a …
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Jobs provide structure to daily life
In our series looking at the possibility of a post-work future, last time we looked at how the centrality of work to our …
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Work is central to our identity
When you are introduced to someone, how long is it before you let them know what you do for work? And how soon do you …
A Post-Work Future May Take Longer Than We Think
The After Capitalism research has identified three categories of visions of a world in which capitalism is no longer the …
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The Non-Tragedy of the Commons
Most of us have dutifully learned the Tragedy of the Commons, how unchecked individual interested overwhelms the group …
Visions, images, and utopias
I’m working on the explanation of what’s to come for After Capitalism. As regular readers are aware by now, three …
Pre-capitalism and post-capitalism
Braudel’s Civilization and Capitalism three-volume series has been in my “to-read” pile for many years. I’d heard many …