10.22.07
Inclusive wealth
As we look to try to get a handle on the way value will be displayed and exchanged in the new exchanges, some analogues to the way people have learned to value things like ecosystem services might be interesting analogues. The Bejer Institute in Sweden has done some interesting research on the new kinds of accounting systems that will be required. And some of the economists looking at resilience economics have approaches that could also be helpful. The epistemology might take a few cues from bioinformatics as a way to humbly find what’s going in an extremely complex and dynamic system, where beliefs and habits, rather than biota, are changing. Mapping an evolving ecosystem of financial value and, because of observer bias, consciously trying to influence it. Yardstick influence.
Samantha Beinhacker said,
October 22, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Check out http://www.resilience2008.org/ to be held in Stockholm, Aprll 14-17, 2008.
“The interest in resilience, adaptation and transformation is growing fast in science and policy, with major implications for issues like social and economic development, livelihood and security from local to global scales. Research on actors, networks, multilevel institutions, organizations and systems of adaptive governance with the ability to respond to ecosystem feedbacks, sustain and enhance flows of freshwater, food and other ecosystem services is expanding. New interpretations of complex systems for economics and economic performance are emerging and the history of human social and cultural evolution is reassessed in the light of complexity and social-ecological systems. Social-ecological dynamics of landscapes and seascapes, the flexibility in social and economic affairs to deal with change, the ability to revive and regenerate following abrupt change and the potential for novelty and innovation are central issues that require a deeper understanding. The significance of knowledge integration crossing the boundaries of the natural and social sciences and the humanities is essential in this context, including knowledge that can integrate across temporal and spatial scales to understand dynamics, timing and drivers of change.”
kevindjones said,
October 22, 2007 at 2:16 pm
i like this crossing the boundaries of natural and social sciences and the humanities. that’s what it is about.