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Rethinking Economics
Did you know that traditional economic theory is based on axioms which are easily disprovable? What if an economic system...
- ...had no single 'official' set of accounts?
- ...had no single 'official' currency?
- ...had no 'money' which was transferred between users?
- ...was designed with a decentralised computer network in mind?
What if its users...
- ...all had equal privileges (no banks)?
- ...saw themselves as maximisers, but not as selfish maximisers?
- ...all saw different sets of interaction records?
- ...could involve themselves in other people's economic dealings?
What if users' interaction records...
- ...did not have to be zero sum (maybe win/win or lose/lose)?
- ...could be revoked or revised at any time?
- ...were expressed in signed semantic mark up and shared with friends?
These are some of the key points of a decentralised system of accounting I have been working on since 2004. Since it was designed to operate on a decentralised social software system, and none was available, I designed the core of such a system, with an emphasis on flexibility rather than speed, using XML as a native datatype and scripting language.
I got hung up on transport and cryptography, so took a break by investigating the historical and psychological aspects of the current money. It seems to me that the earlier Freedom box may provide a good layer on which to run the XML-VM I designed, and F2F Economics a valuable addition to the normal Facebook clone social software which is likely to surface along with it.
Schedule
I will give an overview of decentralised accounting and highlight some of its strengths/weaknesses, then try an open space format.
I have read about but never attended an 'open space' so assistance from open-space ready facilitaror(s) would be appreciated.
When/Where?
Day 2 - 2011-12-28, 15:35--16:30, Smaller Workshop Room B04
Immediately following the related Freedombox Home Servers workshop.
People
If this is of interest, add you name...
- RobinUpton (Host & Contact)
- mo
- ...
- You?
Equipment
- Whiteboard and markers
- Computer projector?