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Dunbar has developed an equation, which works for most primates, in which he plugs in what he calls the neocortex ratio of a particular species - the size of the neocortex relative to the size of the brain - and the equation gives us the maximum expected group size for each species. For humans, the max group size is 147.8, or about 150.
As soon as push comes to shove, and the liberal-democratic societies are threatened by total war, they approximate central planning in their production methods as closely as their political systems allow. Capitalist firms rely on high-level central planning all the time in the modern economy.
Description. Robert Steele : "Beginning in the 1990s when the modern intelligence reform began, the equation of national intelligence with the US government's secret intelligence community began to be questioned. As early as 1992, and consistent with the emergence of the debate over Internet on-ramps for all instead of a handful of research ...
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Pat Conaty: "We should link up social-public partnership and Commons-Public Partnerships. The important point to highlight is that social or commons must precede the state. Our elected representatives need to become again public servants and arrogant masters need to be rapidly recalled."(email, February 2014)
From a draft article by Keir Milburn and Bertie Russell: "Public-Common Partnerships are less a fixed institutional form, but rather a series of principles and processes that need to be designed and implemented on a largely case-by-case basis. They are not limited in their application to any particular resource or asset, although there are certain ...
From a draft article by Keir Milburn and Bertie Russell : "Notwithstanding their heterogeneity, there are a handful of common ingredients that define PCPs as institutional mechanisms orientated towards the capitalization of collective self-governance:
The Public-Commons Partnership is a concept proposed by Tommaso Fattori, Italian commons activist, to replace the concepts of: - public-private partnership and public-public partnership Tommaso Fattori: "The field of Commons can be for the most part identified with a public but not-state arena, in which the actions of the individuals who collective...
In Germany
Keir Milburn, Bertie Russell: "One approach for pursuing such a commoning of society could be through the development of Public-Commons Partnerships, such as that developed in the town of Wolfhagen, Germany. In 2012, Wolfhagen developed a form of ‘cooperative participation’ that would make the municipality and a new cooperative – BEG Wolfhagen – joint stakeholders in the town’s energy utility, Stadtwerke Wolfhagen. This has meant that both the ownership and the decision-making process of the...
In French Law
Excerpt from a study by Olivier Jaspart: ""Comme nous l’avons vu dans l’introduction au droit administratif des biens communs, le droit français ne connait pas de troisième catégorie juridique entre les personnes publiques et les personnes privées. Il existe au contraire un champ des Communs partant du statut de la personne privée et allant jusqu’au statut de la personne morale de droit public. En effet, le droit public est un droit dérogatoire, permettant à certaines personnes de pouvoir exe...
Definition. From the Wikipedia: "A distributed search engine is a search engine where there is no central server. Unlike traditional centralized search engines, work such as crawling, data mining, indexing, and query processing is distributed among several peers in decentralized manner where there is no single point of control."
2008年5月26日 · While Internet is an old technology, since it was first deployed in the U.S. in 1969, it was only in the 1990s, with the invention of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee and the privatization of the Internet by the U.S. Defense Department, that it became a mass medium. From 9 million users in 1995 it went to over 1 billion users in 2007.
Description. From the Wikipedia: "Seven generation sustainability is an ecological concept that urges the current generation of humans to live sustainably and work for the benefit of the seventh generation into the future. It originated with the Iroquois - Great Law of the Iroquois - which holds appropriate to think seven generations ahead ...
