A key question that has consistently informed the research and books that I’ve been going through in this “After …
The Neoliberal Capitalist Story
“Social responsibility”….[is a] fundamentally subversive doctrine” in a free society….“there is one and only one social …
Signal: Men without Work
Nicholas Eberstadt of American Enterprise Institute provides helpful insight into an issue that “after capitalism” is …
Reframing After Capitalism
I introduced a new framing of the “After Capitalism” project a few weeks ago in a post on “transition.” Let’s look more …
P2P Platforms in Transition to After Capitalism
Last week we talked about the sharing economy as a transition stage to “after capitalism.” Intermediaries are an …
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The Sharing Economy Transition
In my emerging scheme for organizing the concepts for what’s next and after capitalism, I am placing the sharing economy …
From Apartness to Integrated
I have been working through ideas about “what’s after capitalism,” and think about what’s wrong and what could be right, …
I Am Not a Consumer: Values and After Capitalism
Shifting values are a key part of the “after capitalism” story. It’s not just about economics, it’s really about our way …
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Balanced View of Emerging AI & Automation
One the one hand, “we are at an inflection point—the early stages of a shift as profound as that brought on by the …
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Wiring or Choice?
I’ve got a few books to review for the blog for “After Capitalism” that come at what’s next from different perspectives. …
Jobs or Tasks?
The Shift Commission released a nice report on the future of work looking ahead 10-20 years. Four almost-inevitable …
A class-y view on After Capitalism
Move aside proletariat. A precariat is emerging as a potential new class to the lead the transformation to an …
Postcapitalism and a world without work
Neoliberalism, the baseline, has failed. But the left has failed to capitalize (sorry for the double entendre there). …
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Preparing for a World that Doesn’t Yet Exist
Preparing for a World That Doesn’t Exist – Yet made me think. And for that, I judge it a success. It was interestingly …
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Aspiring to Betterness
The journey exploring what’s after capitalism keeps getting more interesting. The plot continues to thicken. …
Economy or Society: Aftershock
Do we want to be an economy or society? For me, you can view the economy camp as a modern values worldview based on …
The Next Book: What’s After Capitalism?
After five or so years of keeping one eye on concepts for what might follow capitalism, it's time! The topic is so super …
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Revisiting the End of Work
I published an “End of Work as We Know It” piece back in 2015 for the Career Planning and Adult Development Journal. A …
Four Futures After Capitalism
An interesting set of scenarios “after capitalism” from “Four Futures: Life After Capitalism.” The two key …
Money money money & capitalism
Framework Foresight and other foresight methods suggest that any exploration into the future be accompanied by a look …
Postcapitalism: It isn’t just the economy
I’m grateful to Andrew Curry for the recommendation for Paul Mason's Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future. My journey …
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Don’t be a meatbot
My elegant title suggests a simple strategy of looking at the unfolding pathway of automation and don’t follow a …
Next Economy: Is It Really Different This Time?
I finally got to Carlota Perez’s, Technological revolutions and financial capital: The dynamics of bubbles and golden …
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Foundations of plenty challenged
Continuing on the next economy theme this week with The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was …
MISC: Prepping for the Next Economy(s)
I am pleased with the Houston Foresight program's collaboration with the elegant and informative MISC: A …
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Next Economy Additions: Commons, Creative Molecular, and Em/Singularity
A couple of years, I started collecting and posting concepts or names for the next economy as part of my scanning (which …
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Future of income inequality via Picketty
Every now and then, perhaps more than I care to admit, I defer reading a book that attains some degree of popular …
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Indicator Alert: The Swiss Say No to Basic Income
We have been keeping an eye on new economy concepts. The passage of a guaranteed basic income would be an indicator of …
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Next Economy Additions: Zero marginal cost, metaspace, conscious, and Blockchain
A couple of years, I started collecting and posting concepts or names for the next economy as part of my scanning (which …
Soft Path Indicator “Hits:” More on a Guaranteed Basic Income
If you’ll allow the Soft Path my choice of the global socioeconomic transformation archetype, I’d suggest we an …
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