Beyond Currency
Earth's Economy in Star Trek EXPLAINED
The tour that opens the whole thought experiment: how the Federation actually functions without money — replicators, the New World Economy, and what people work for when nobody gets paid. Part of our Beyond Currency series. @OrangeRiver
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Hayek and the Socialist Calculation Problem
Marginal Revolution University explains the classic case against every planned economy: prices as a compression algorithm for dispersed, tacit knowledge that no central planner can gather. The objection any honest post-monetary proposal has to answer first. Part of our Beyond Currency series. @MarginalRevolutionUniversity
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Charles Eisenstein on the Gift Economy
The Guardian's interview with theorist Charles Eisenstein on the core principle of a gift economy — status flows from what you give away, not what you hoard, so the more you give, the richer you are. Part of our Beyond Currency series. @theGuardian
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
The famous RSA Animate of Dan Pink's talk on autonomy, mastery, and purpose — the research behind why people do world-class creative work without a paycheck, once survival is already covered. Part of our Beyond Currency series. @rsaorg
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Community Land Trusts Are Expanding
PBS SoCal on how community land trusts keep housing permanently affordable by taking land off the speculative market — the land fix for the positional-goods problem, already working in hundreds of cities today. Part of our Beyond Currency series. @PBSSoCal
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Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek
Trekonomics author Manu Saadia interviewed on The Zero Hour about the economics of Star Trek — the deepest serious treatment of how a post-scarcity, post-money Federation could actually hold together. Part of our Beyond Currency series. @TheZeroHourwithRJEskow
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The Gift Economy: A Resilient Alternative to Consumer Culture
A deeper dive into the motivation pillar: what an economy looks like when it runs on relationships and reciprocity instead of money, consumerism, and scarcity. Part of our Beyond Currency series. @ParkrosePermaculture
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Power to the People: Community Land Trusts
The civil-rights-era origins of community land trusts, in depth — how the single highest-leverage transition institution in the post was invented, and why it works. Part of our Beyond Currency series. @WeActRadioDC
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Earth's Economy in Star Trek EXPLAINED
The tour that opens the whole thought experiment: how the Federation actually functions without money — replicators, the New World Economy, and what people work for when nobody gets paid. Part of our Beyond Currency series. @OrangeRiver
See the full series on BeyondCurrencyHayek and the Socialist Calculation Problem
Marginal Revolution University explains the classic case against every planned economy: prices as a compression algorithm for dispersed, tacit knowledge that no central planner can gather. The objection any honest post-monetary proposal has to answer first. Part of our Beyond Currency series. @MarginalRevolutionUniversity
See the full series on BeyondCurrencyCharles Eisenstein on the Gift Economy
The Guardian's interview with theorist Charles Eisenstein on the core principle of a gift economy — status flows from what you give away, not what you hoard, so the more you give, the richer you are. Part of our Beyond Currency series. @theGuardian
See the full series on BeyondCurrencyDrive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
The famous RSA Animate of Dan Pink's talk on autonomy, mastery, and purpose — the research behind why people do world-class creative work without a paycheck, once survival is already covered. Part of our Beyond Currency series. @rsaorg
See the full series on BeyondCurrencyCommunity Land Trusts Are Expanding
PBS SoCal on how community land trusts keep housing permanently affordable by taking land off the speculative market — the land fix for the positional-goods problem, already working in hundreds of cities today. Part of our Beyond Currency series. @PBSSoCal
See the full series on BeyondCurrencyTrekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek
Trekonomics author Manu Saadia interviewed on The Zero Hour about the economics of Star Trek — the deepest serious treatment of how a post-scarcity, post-money Federation could actually hold together. Part of our Beyond Currency series. @TheZeroHourwithRJEskow
See the full series on BeyondCurrencyAn Introduction to a Resource-Based Economy
Peter Joseph's TEDxOjai talk — the most prominent activist articulation of the open-source resource tracker idea, from the founder of the Zeitgeist Movement. A lineage with its own controversies; judge the argument on its merits. Part of our Beyond Currency series. @LinguisticTeamIntl
See the full series on BeyondCurrencyThe Gift Economy: A Resilient Alternative to Consumer Culture
A deeper dive into the motivation pillar: what an economy looks like when it runs on relationships and reciprocity instead of money, consumerism, and scarcity. Part of our Beyond Currency series. @ParkrosePermaculture
See the full series on BeyondCurrencyPower to the People: Community Land Trusts
The civil-rights-era origins of community land trusts, in depth — how the single highest-leverage transition institution in the post was invented, and why it works. Part of our Beyond Currency series. @WeActRadioDC
See the full series on BeyondCurrencyContact Us
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