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jean lievens
September 13, 2015 3:28 PM
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* Article: The Exit from Capitalism has Already Begun. André Gorz. Translated by Chris Turner. Cultural Politics: an International Journal, Volume 6, Number 1, March 2010 , pp. 5-14(10). Berg Publishers Excerpted from an introduction by Chris Turner: “Though hailed at his death by Nicolas Sarkozy (of all people) as “a major intellectual figure of …
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jean lievens
September 6, 2015 6:57 AM
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As the neoliberal revolution instigated by Reagan and Thatcher in the 1980 has spread, however, Polanyi has been rediscovered.
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jean lievens
August 27, 2015 2:29 PM
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The coordination costs of the taxicab business have generally kept it local. According to the Taxicab, Limousine and ParaTransit Association, the US taxi industry consists of approximately 6,300 companies operating 171,000 taxicabs and other vehicles. More than 80% of these are small companies operating anywhere between one and 50 taxis. Only 6% of these companies have more than 100 taxicabs. Only in the largest of these companies do multiple drivers use the same taxicab, with regular shifts. 85% of taxi and limousine drivers are independent contractors. In many cases, the taxi driver pays a rental fee (typically $120/$130 per day) to the owner of the cab (who in turn pays a dispatch and branding fee to the branded dispatch service) and keeps what he or she makes after paying that daily cost. The total number of cabs is limited by government-granted licenses, sometimes called medallions.
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jean lievens
August 2, 2015 3:45 PM
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Republished from Esko Kilpi: “Over the past years, mobile technologies and the Internet have laid the foundation for a very small size, low-cost enterprise with the potential for managing large numbers of business relationships. The impact of these new actors has been hard to grasp because we are used to thinking about work from a …
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jean lievens
July 21, 2015 5:52 PM
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I believe it offers an escape route – but only if these micro-level projects are nurtured, promoted and protected by a fundamental change in what governments do. And this must be driven by a change in our thinking – about technology, ownership and work. So that, when we create the elements of the new system, …
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jean lievens
June 14, 2015 1:53 PM
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On Ouishare Fest and the gaping contradiction between the utopian possibilities and the hyper-capitalist realities of the sharing economy.
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jean lievens
June 3, 2015 3:46 PM
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The latest issue of Boston Review has a lively forum on the growing power of network platform based businesses such as Amazon, Uber and Airbnb.
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jean lievens
May 18, 2015 3:11 PM
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The American middle class is in steep decline, which has been true for 3-4 decades but accelerated rapidly after 2008. Converging U.S. and global macroeconomic change has created a millennial generation in fierce competition for opportunity and armed with the Internet in the search to reduce costs, find income and get ahead. Inter-generationally, there are more mice, the mice are more hungry, and there is less cheese in life’s maze.
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jean lievens
April 15, 2015 4:55 PM
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Occupy Banking: a perverse system based on debt with these institutions – who have never been voted in democratically – is hijacking our sovereignty.
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jean lievens
March 8, 2015 4:00 AM
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We want to finance the team that is already working on the launch of the #OccupyBanking campaign with the intention of placing at the center of public debate the total lack of democracy of the European Central Bank (ECB) and large private banks who control the monetary system, and especially the creation of money. A perverse system based on debt with these institutions – who have never been voted in democratically – hijacking our sovereignty. The #OccupyBanking campaign also wants to be the spearhead for creating the conditions that allow the #ReturnWithFreedom of the activist Enric Duran.
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jean lievens
January 28, 2015 12:02 PM
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“Thanks for this book, Michel and Vasilis. “Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy” is exceedingly timely and I would recommend it to anyone interested in the Commons specifically, or in political economy more generally. In response, I’ve written something in between a review and a letter to the authors. I address Michel because he posted it. Hopefully he will respond to a few of my comments!
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jean lievens
January 1, 2015 3:38 PM
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jean lievens
November 24, 2014 3:46 PM
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A three part video on algorithmic Hegemony & the Droning of Labor from the New School's series on Digital Labor
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jean lievens
September 11, 2015 9:34 AM
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Towards a political ecology of the digital economy: Socio-environmental implications of two competing value models. By Vasilis Kostakis, Andreas Roos and Michel Bauwens. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 2015. Abstract This article explores the socio-environmental implications of two different value models currently competing for dominance in the digital economy: the neo-feudal cognitive capitalism (NFCC) and …
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jean lievens
August 29, 2015 2:13 PM
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If an higher education equivalent of Amazon or Google along the lines sketched above did come into being, it would disrupt the public university still further – only this time by means of an innovative, profit-driven, ‘sharing economy’ business operating according to a post-welfare capitalist model, just as Airbnb is currently disrupting the state regulated …
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jean lievens
August 5, 2015 4:09 PM
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Ever since Bill Clinton and the World Bank enthusiastically embraced the microfinance concept in the 1990s, we at Local Futures have been skeptical of its benefits.
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jean lievens
July 26, 2015 2:50 PM
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This is really good panel on the necessary cooperative forms for the sharing economy: ““Given the mounting attention to the unethical labor practices in the so-called “collaborative sharing economy” with labor brokerages like Handy and Uber, what are the alternatives? Imagine for one moment that the algorithmic heart of any of these citadels of anti-unionism …
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jean lievens
June 26, 2015 11:54 AM
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A great transformation is occurring in the nature of capitalism.
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jean lievens
June 12, 2015 2:39 PM
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Being involved with FairCoop has piqued my interest in the direct use of finance for activist means, and reading Brett Scott’s excellent “The Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money”I have become aware of various attempts to do just that. Whereas FairCoop (and the related cryptocurrency Faircoin) seek to establish a parallel financial ecosystem based around social justice and fair trade, there are other projects attempting to ‘hack’ the mainstream financial system in order to use it as a means to increase equality in the world rather than, as generally seems to be the case on looking around me, to substantially decrease it.
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jean lievens
May 19, 2015 11:37 AM
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ABSTRACT . We challenge the prevalent opinion that consumption does not seem to matter as much as production and defy the fetishism of industrial work. We explore the implications of the premise that under conditions of cognitive capitalism consumption dictates what production does, when and how. We explain that in a post-industrial global society and economy fashion, branding, instant gratification of desires, and ephemeral consumer tastes govern production and consumption. The London (commodity) riots of August 2011 send us a warning that consumption and cognitive capitalism are asphyxiating in the structures and norms of industrial capitalism that are still in place.
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jean lievens
May 9, 2015 3:48 PM
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The irony is that, for all the talk of giving and sharing, this is potentially an even more egocentric worldview than that associated with the market
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jean lievens
April 8, 2015 12:30 PM
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It’s not everyday that we get to see great masses of people alter their attitudes as a cherished act of motherhood is converted into a lucrative market.
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jean lievens
February 11, 2015 5:28 AM
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Twitter feeds and newspaper headlines were again dominated this morning by new statistics on growing wealth inequality, as released by Oxfam ahead of this week’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.
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jean lievens
January 3, 2015 2:45 AM
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As we enter 2015, the global corporate system deepens and spreads in its eco-genocidal effects. But the dots are not joined in their common cause across domains. Money-value coordinates like GDP, c...
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jean lievens
December 31, 2014 6:05 AM
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“Thanks for this book, Michel and Vasilis. “Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy” is exceedingly timely and I would recommend it to anyone interested in the Commons specifically, or in political economy more generally. In response, I’ve written something in between a review and a letter to the authors. I address Michel because he posted it. Hopefully he will respond to a few of my comments!
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