Wednesdays 12noon-2pm at the School of Economic Science, 11-13 Mandeville Place, W1U 3AJ. From Bond Street tube, turn left/west into Oxford Street, when you see GAP, go right/north along James Street straight into Mandeville Place – No. 11 is the building with pillars last on the left.
‘MATTERS IN THE AIR’ which participants could choose to develop…..
1. IMMEDIATE SUPPORT FOR ACTIVISTS
a] QUILLIGAN SEMINARS ROUND 2 + Greco Visit + Harrison book launch – Oct 22-28th – latest details second attachment Registrations and/or Donations a s a p please in support of this 2nd experiment in proto-typing systemic change.
b] Report on Simon Mouatt’s Southampton academic symposium of Sept 26th with input from Shakespeare {the Binary way}, Scott-Cato {ecological economics}, Jackson {Positive Money}, Werner {evidence for structural faults}, Ryan-Collins {NEF}, Trunbull { energy based currencies}, Potts {Capitalist assumptions}, Adams { community initiatives and technology revolution.}
c] Challenges set by
– FRANK TAYLOR [Runnymede Project & Purton Declaration], at Oct 26th
– MARIO MOLINARI [Food as common basis and entry point for a new economy]
– JASPER TOMLINSON [ future thrust of CCMJ & of Molton Salt Reactors]
– PAUL MOORE New Wilberforce Alliance – http://www.thetablet.co.uk/article/162939 – Paul Moore, at Oct 26th
– CHARLES SECRETT Developing a ‘critical mass’ capable of moving the political economy significantly – charting ‘a matrix of critical mass’ at Oct 26th
– Oct 28th – FRED HARRISON – Book Launch Oct 28th see attachment _ help us invite people of ‘good faith’
– ROBERT SEARLE – keeping a close eye on Heterodox Economics – We’d value comment on anything identified as helpful to our cause.
– ALEXANDER BARON applies for the top job at the BofE with wit – a call for sanity – will Richard Werner sod the same at a serious level?
– FUTURE OF CCMJ
d] Sesto Castagnoli joined us recently introducing us to an inspiring initiative ‘GRADIDO – Natural Economy of Life – a way to world-wide prosperity and peace in harmony with nature’ – please retain this for future reference https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n9WBYRxQQ_lqnNUj0k13LD330ARB5TfwIMQn4YWLRiM/edit
Gradido_Book_en_short_cover.pdfGradido_Book_en_short_cover.pdf
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e] Request for accommodation night of Oct 25 and 26 for an associate of the Table coming to the Seminar on Building a Movement.Contact Peter if you can help.
f] Occupy US bears fruit – https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox/139e55a1fbebede5
and New Putney Debates https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox/13a19a20b6f9fec4
g] Please listen to this excellent 15-minute talk given by Margaret Heffernan at the Royal Society of Arts in London recently and broadcast last night on BBC Radio 4: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010q0n0 It is a robust defence of whistleblowers. She concludes with a strong emphasis on the need for trust and integrity.
2. AREAS FOR DEEPER INVESTIGATION
a] New economic model from Michael Hudson and Dirk Bezemer :
Incorporating the Rentier Sectors into a Financial Model
http://michael-hudson.com/2012/09/incorporating-the-rentier-sectors-into-a-financial-model-3/ Sat Sep 15, 2012 This new posting from Michael Hudson seems to pull all the monetary aspects of the economy together by building on the work of Henry George, Steve Keen and the MMT Group. Well worth a look. I particularly like Figure 4 which shows all the monetary flows which arise in an economy in a nice diagram.
b] The New Putney Debates: Law and Democracy
Saturday, November 3, 2012, 1:00pm – 5:00pm in UTC at St Mary’s Church, Putney
c] Michel Bauwens – Synthetic Overview of the Collaborative Economy – P2P Foundation | P2P search for New Politics & Economics There is no longer any excuse to remain ignorant of the vast peer-to-peer landscape that is slowly but surely replacing the obsolete, monopolistic, and competitive institutions of yesterday. This auth…
d] Commons Beyond Market and State – P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics http://p2pfoundation.net/Commons_Beyond_Market_and_State#
Introduction to the book, The Wealth of the Commons
3. YOUR INPUT ON THE ‘MATTERS IN THE AIR’ YOU WISH TO SHARE
a] ROBIN SMITH’S The Economic Rent Circle (TERC) – 530pm, Every Friday, The Brewmaster pub, Leicester Square
b] Mark Horler posted in Simpol-UK
http://simpoluk.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/regarding-democracy-2015/ – Regarding Democracy 2015 simpoluk.wordpress.com
Last week, Andreas Whittam Smith (AWS), the founder of The Independent newspaper launched a new poli…?
QUILLIGAN SEMINARS 2
Away with straight-edged rulers
to save this fractal universe.
In nature’s persistent emergence
treat money and land as social commons,
like air and oceans,
the bio-sphere, its deep deposits
of past storing centuries,
to serve all generations ahead.
Join our proto-typing of
systemic recovery and renewal
at the Quilligan Seminars
in the days of October 22-28, 2012
QUILLIGAN and allied SEMINARS Oct. 22-28th
Main page/introduction by James Quilligan – philosopher and development economist
co-founder of the Global Commons Trust – acting as moderator of the series:
http://schoolofcommoning.com/content/october-2012-quilligan-seminars
Links on all pages to make navigation easy and t
he overview with each point of access is here: http://www.schoolofcommoning.com/content/overview-october-2012-seminars
THE THESIS IS SIMPLE: Our present ways of knowing are imbalanced, which has skewed the economic system and reduced the commons of the ordinary world into commodities and money. Since all people have two brain hemispheres which process complementary views on the nature of reality as a whole and as a part, a foundation exists for economic knowledge that is both universal and pluralistic. The development of this theory of knowledge [epistemology] will reunite the economy with the commons [ontology]. .JBQ
ITS APPLICATION IS OUR TOUGH TASK …in which we must each respect each other’s contribution and starting point.
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QUILLIGAN and allied SEMINARS Oct. 22-28th
Main page/introduction by James Quilligan – philosopher and development economist
co-founder of the Global Commons Trust – acting as moderator of the series:
http://schoolofcommoning.com/content/october-2012-quilligan-seminars
Links on all pages to make navigation easy and the overview with each point of access is here: http://www.schoolofcommoning.com/content/overview-october-2012-seminars
3 Attachments
Word: Harrison invitation Oct 28 – at 7-9-12.doc
Word: QS2 All seminars 22-28th Oct A5 leaflet.doc
Google Document: Sesto Giovanni Castagnoli – Evolutant – Gradido
