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Loevinger conceived of an ego-development system which closely resembles moral development, but is broader in scope and uses empirical methods of study. She created an objective test of mothers' attitudes to problems in family life, which Loevinger called the Family Problems Scale.
Operational autonomy is the power to make strategic choices among alternative rationalizations without regard for externalities, customary practice, workers' preferences, or the impact of decisions on their households.
Definition. "Symmathesy (Noun): An entity composed by contextual mutual learning through interaction. This process of interaction and mutual learning takes place in living entities at larger or smaller scales of symmathesy. Symmathesy (Verb): to interact within multiple variables to produce a mutual learning context."
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From the Wikipedia article on 'Returns to scale': "In economics, returns to scale and economies of scale are related but different terms that describe what happens as the scale of production increases in the long run, when all input levels including physical capital usage are variable (chosen by the firm). The term returns to scale arises in the co...
Dave Pollard on the Power of Scaling
From http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2008/03/04.html#a2113: "The corporations would have you believe that the combination promises "economies of scale" -- that redundant positions can be eliminated, duplicate processes eliminated, volume discounts obtained from suppliers, and efficiencies obtained by combining operations. Anyone who has ever been through a combination can tell you that this almost never occurs. In fact, costs rise after the combination because of diseconomies of scale -- the l...
Kevin Carson
See the entry on Diseconomies of Scale
Felix Stalder on Clay Shirky's arguments
Felix Stalder: " There are limits to the scale particular forms of organisation can handle efficiently. Ever since the publication of Roland Coase's seminal article ‘The Nature of the Firm’ in 1937, economists and organisational theorists have been analysing the ‘Coasian ceiling’. It indicates the maximum size an organisation can grow to before the costs of managing its internal complexity rise beyond the gains the increased size can offer. At that point, it becomes more efficient to acquire...
There is no civilisation without scaling
Dizzynomics: "you can’t have civilisation without division of labour. The two are inseparable. Indeed, it is only when we specialise in certain sectors or develop expertise that we can achieve the sort of efficiencies that allow civilised existence to manifest. Trust and centralised distribution are essential ingredients in that set up because without them there is no point in being a specialist. The benefits of specialisation would not be able to flow further because nobody would be able to...
Scaling in the digital economy
Dizzynomics: "The digital economy, like the financial industry, has been profoundly useful in encouraging smarter distribution and matching of other people’s specialisations vis-a-vis their wants and needs. When done well, this becomes a service that allows society to organise itself more efficiently, growing the pie for everyone. It — the service — even becomes a specialist activity in its own right. This works great for as long as these specialists, whose core product is trust in themselves...
Bio. Chairperson at Asian Solidarity Economy Council (ASEC) Philippines. Current : RIPESS, Asian Solidarity Economy Council (ASEC) Education: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Solidarity Economy at SAIDI School of Organization Development.
1 Description. 2 Discussion. 2.1 The Egalitarian practices of immediate return societies. 2.1.1 Mobility and flexibility. 2.1.2 Access to means of coercion. 2.1.3 Access to food and other resources. 2.1.4 Sharing. 2.1.5 Sanctions on the accumulation of personal possessions. 2.1.6 The transmission of possessions between people.
Definition. "During the early years of the 21st century, the word "libre" acquired meaning in English, largely on account of the adoption of "FLOSS" as an accepted acronym for free/libre and open source software and common use of the term "software libre".