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We live in what Paul Goodman called the "kingdom of cost-plus": a society in which the vast majority of commodity prices consists of subsidized waste, mandated unnecessary overhead, and embedded rents on artificial property rights." (p2p research list, April ...
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By Michael H. Shuman & Doug Hoffer: "A growing body of evidence suggests that the businesses most beneficial to a communityeconomy are those that are locally owned and import-substituting. 1. Local ownership means that working control of a company is held within a small geographic area. 1. Import-substituting means that the company is focused first...
"Local ownership turns out to matter for economic development in at least five ways: • Locally owned businesses generally contribute more to the “economicmultiplier” than nonlocal businesses – which translates into more income,wealth, jobs, and tax payments – because the former spend more moneylocally. • While absentee-owned businesses increasingly...
The Multiplier vs. Leakage
"Every purchase triggers purchases by others within a community. For instance, a dollar spent on rentmight be spent again by the property owners at the local grocer, who in turn pays an employee, who thenbuys a movie ticket. This phenomenon is what economists call “the multiplier.” The more times a dollarcirculates within a defined geographic area and the faster it circulates without leaving that area, the moreincome, wealth, and jobs it creates. This basic concept in community economics high...
The importance of import-substitution for local prosperity
"Import substitution matters for economic prosperity as well. Every time a communityimports a good or service that it could cost-effectively produce for itself, it “leaks”dollars and loses the critically important economic multipliers associated with them.Unnecessary imports – of foreign oil, for example – also subject a community to risks ofmajor price hikes and disruptions outside local control. And they deny a community adiversified base of businesses and skills that are needed to take adv...
We have started with an A-bis (plus BSC/MSC/HLR) implementation for experimentation and research purpose, but have since moved way beyond that. What this means: OpenBSC is a GSM network in a box software, implementing the minimal necessary parts to build a small, self-contained GSM network.
Description. "PROSOCIAL is a framework for improving the efficacy of groups that is being developed by the Evolution Institute. It is based on eight core design principles that are needed by most groups whose members must work together to achieve common goals: Strong group identity and understanding of purpose.
Once client payments are in, the institutional investors receive their loan (plus interest) who can then pay back their investors - people who purchased those original securities. It's not as simple a model as Kiva's, but its differences are very important. First of all ...
At BrightFarms we are deploying business model innovation for produce that could disrupt the produce industry. Think of the model like a solar PPA, but for produce – a “produce purchase agreement”. A PPA between BrightFarms and major supermarkets disintermediates the old system. Instead of transporting produce thousands of miles, we ...
Heinsohn (2009); Heinsohn and Steiger (2013) argues that indebtedness forces property owners, whose titles are on the line as collateral, to start selling things in order to pay back principle plus interest. Where formal property rights are absent, he notes, so are
