"Vision is not only about the future, but also the present. What would having a vision like the one called participatory economics imply for today’s practical choices?Broadly considered, if you want to get someplace new, it behooves you to take steps towards where you want to go, not steps that take you somewhere else. An … Continue reading Participatory Economics Overview: What, Why, How
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The Iron Law of Institutions
"The Iron Law of Institutions is: the people who control institutions care first and foremost about their power within the institution rather than the power of the institution itself. Thus, they would rather the institution 'fail' while they remain in power within the institution than for the institution to 'succeed' if that requires them to … Continue reading The Iron Law of Institutions
The Burrito Test
"The anti-psychiatric-abuse community has invented the 'Burrito Test' - if a place won't let you microwave a burrito without asking permission, it's an institution. Doesn't matter if the name is "Center For Flourishing" or whatever and the aides are social workers in street clothes instead of nurses in scrubs - if it doesn't pass the … Continue reading The Burrito Test
Coveillance
"Increasingly powerful surveillance tools have shifted the power dynamics between people and institutions. To address this new dynamic, we’ve been creating a toolkit, in collaboration with the ACLU of Washington, that demystifies surveillance technologies in Seattle in the historical context of structural inequities in the United States."https://coveillance.org/
So Can We Have It All? — Mark Blyth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOGc6XZwVxA Part of a series from McMaster University’s recent Summer School in Capitalism, Democratic Solidarity, and Institutional Design.
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