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San Pisith is a Buddhist Monk and an Early Stage Researcher at Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance. He has joined the Cosmolocalism project since September 2019 to pursue a Ph.D. at TalTech, Estonia. His Ph.D. thesis focuses on Buddhist Economics, Buddhist Governance, Commons, and Happiness and Public Purpose.
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P2P Theory attempts to describe the emergence of peer to peer as an `objective phenomenon’, but, crucially, investiges what subjective/intersubjective political strategies could be used to promote it. Because of the insight of the Relational Model, we do not believe in a marketless or stateless society, but rather, in a political economy ...
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"This is the basic thesis of Secular Cycles. Pre-industrial history operates on two cycles: first, a three-hundred year cycle of the rise-and-fall of civilizations. And second, a 40-60 year cycle of violent disorder that only becomes relevant during the lowest parts of the first cycle." - Scott Alexander
1. Mark Koyama: "The leading modern day cyclical theorist is undoubtedly Peter Turchin. For my money Turchin’s best book is Secular Cycles(co-authored with Sergey A. Nefedov). Their innovation (building on an argument made by my GMU colleague Jack Goldstone in his 1991 book Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World) is to take the Malthusi...
1. Donald J. Zeigler: "The shadows of Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo loom large over Turchin andNefedov's search for history's motive force. Neo-Malthusian demographers will feel vindicated by the theory of secular cycles. Classical economists will relish eight case studies demonstiating Ricardo's law of diminishing returns. Marxists, however, wi...
James Quilligan: "The first chapter of Secular Cycles describes the general historical cycle of a civilization lifting itself out subsistence into greater social complexity and prosperity, then undergoing bitter class inequality, completely misunderstanding the need to manage economics and society by measuring resources according to population, and...
From: Chapter 1, Introduction: The Theoretical Background From the reading highlights by Michel Bauwens.
The Roman Secular Cycle
Scott Alexander: "Eight chapters are case studies of eight different historical periods and how they followed the secular cycle model. For example, Chapter 7 is on the Roman Empire. It starts with Augustus in 27 BC. The Roman Republic has just undergone a hundred years of civil war, from the Gracchi to Marius to Sulla to Pompey to Caesar to Antony. All of this decreased its population by 30% from its second-century peak. That means things are set to get a lot better very quickly. The expansio...
* Book: Ivan Illich. Toward a History of Needs. Description Dougald Hine: "In Illich's own work, Toward a History of Needs (1978) marks the emergence of a theme which runs through his later work. By focusing on "the sociogenesis of needs" (as he puts it in this ...
Theophysics is a vision of “Science as theology”, a conception of Physics as science of the world and science of God. Panikkar’s intent is “to auscultate God in the scientific experience itself and to recognize Him in the most abstract mathematical speculation” (“Introduzione alla teofisica”, Civiltà delle Macchine, Roma 5, 1963).
More detailed and longer bio / cv at: http://p2pfoundation.net/Michel_Bauwens/Full_Bio Bio As of 2007, Michel Bauwens is the founder of the Foundation for Peer-to ...
