Network Economy - Environmental Economics - Lecture Slides, Slides of Environmental Economics

Download Network Economy - Environmental Economics - Lecture Slides and more Slides Environmental Economics in PDF only on Docsity! The Network Economy New role of Culture in Economics Implications for the nature of Markets, Property & Ownership Creativity & Work Commons & Ecology Implications for Participation & Democracy Docsity.com Redefining Wealth Quantitative: Money & Material Accumulation Qualitative: Well-being Regeneration Docsity.com Related Questions • Who are corporate allies in the quest to free up culture flows? • What business models can tolerate non-proprietary information? • What are possible negative impacts of mass collaboration? • What are the implications for university research & education? – ...for adult education? – ...for community development? Docsity.com Knowledge-based Development • Dematerialization: intrinsic: substituting information for resources • Detoxification: ...great potential to tune into benign process & substances. • Decentralization: intrinsic part of the network economy Docsity.com The Rise of Information • Science followed technology: Electricity: 1st science-based development • Herman Hollerith: punch-card tabulator: 1890 census – allowed big businesses to process information much quicker – customers, finances, employees, supply chains, inventories • Dismantling of power generation: paralleled the creation of departments for data processing • Rise of bureaucracy and white-collar work Docsity.com Work (Creativity) in the Info Economy • a growing proportion of work is involved in the production of “meaning & value” – ...including old forms of “manual” work (e.g. construction, landscaping) that now involve deeper eco-knowledge • a break from the historic role of worker as cog in the Megamachine • the decline of bureaucracy • people as means & ends of ‘development’; inversion of ‘investment-consumption’ relationship • all-round human development: underlying basis for “creative class” economy: freedom & individuation. N.B.: The overwhelming portion of ecological development—green building, permaculture, renewable energy, eco-industrial networks, reuse-based waste management etc.--all require greater knowledge Docsity.com Commons in the Info Economy • Sharing & conservation: key role of design. • Sharing: flip side of the new importance of creativity. • Green goods and info goods as “public goods”, not easily served by market exchange. • Key struggles today: over control of the Commons—the “2nd Enclosure” Brand: “Information wants to be free!” Daly: “Trade recipes, not cookies.” Docsity.com Democracy & the New Commons • the Digital Divide • Net Neutrality & the Information Highway • Struggle over Bandwidth Docsity.com