Comments on: Julian on Non-Market Cooperation http://techliberation.com/2007/07/13/julian-on-non-market-cooperation/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:51:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: eee_eff http://techliberation.com/2007/07/13/julian-on-non-market-cooperation/comment-page-1/#comment-49533 eee_eff Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:25:21 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/07/13/julian-on-non-market-cooperation/#comment-49533 <p>The other point that could be made (and I haven't read Julian's article) is that the question could be asked: do these 'non-market' activities make markets better?<br><br>Even if everyone benefits to some degree from a given market structure, it is still fair to ask "Is this the best possible outcome, for all parties?"<br><br>In some cases, for doing some things, some find markets wanting. So spontaneous creation of non-market structures happens.<br><br>The left (these days at least) usually does not attack people for using the market, but for abusing people. That abuse is often facilitated by very distorted market structures created by and for the current political powers. The left has been moving beyond from criticism of the market itself for quite some time. See: Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins. <a href="http://www.natcap.org">www.natcap.org</a></p> The other point that could be made (and I haven’t read Julian’s article) is that the question could be asked: do these ‘non-market’ activities make markets better?

Even if everyone benefits to some degree from a given market structure, it is still fair to ask “Is this the best possible outcome, for all parties?”

In some cases, for doing some things, some find markets wanting. So spontaneous creation of non-market structures happens.

The left (these days at least) usually does not attack people for using the market, but for abusing people. That abuse is often facilitated by very distorted market structures created by and for the current political powers. The left has been moving beyond from criticism of the market itself for quite some time. See: Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins. http://www.natcap.org

]]> By: enigma_foundry http://techliberation.com/2007/07/13/julian-on-non-market-cooperation/comment-page-1/#comment-38895 enigma_foundry Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:25:21 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/07/13/julian-on-non-market-cooperation/#comment-38895 <p>The other point that could be made (and I haven't read Julian's article) is that the question could be asked: do these 'non-market' activities make markets better?</p> <p>Even if everyone benefits to some degree from a given market structure, it is still fair to ask "Is this the best possible outcome, for all parties?"</p> <p>In some cases, for doing some things, some find markets wanting. So spontaneous creation of non-market structures happens.</p> <p>The left (these days at least) usually does not attack people for using the market, but for abusing people. That abuse is often facilitated by very distorted market structures created by and for the current political powers. The left has been moving beyond from criticism of the market itself for quite some time. See: Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins. www.natcap.org</p> The other point that could be made (and I haven’t read Julian’s article) is that the question could be asked: do these ‘non-market’ activities make markets better?

Even if everyone benefits to some degree from a given market structure, it is still fair to ask “Is this the best possible outcome, for all parties?”

In some cases, for doing some things, some find markets wanting. So spontaneous creation of non-market structures happens.

The left (these days at least) usually does not attack people for using the market, but for abusing people. That abuse is often facilitated by very distorted market structures created by and for the current political powers. The left has been moving beyond from criticism of the market itself for quite some time. See: Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins. http://www.natcap.org

]]>