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Sep '24 •
Robert Solow and Steve's comments about his regrets
An example of that would be the following. He recognized that privatizing land has been associated with rent extraction and inequality Open letter to Gorbachev On November 7, 1990, an open letter to then President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev was published[1][2] and signed by a rank of thirty Western sources, most of whom were academics.[3][4] The contents of the letter made the argument to the Soviet head of state that while moving the economy away from a centrally planned system towards a free market mixed economy was a step forward, they warned the leader against following through with the West had done following the end of feudalism; privatising the land itself, instead opting towards a Georgist system of common ownership and the collection of public revenue through land-value taxation.[3][4] Nobel prize-winners Franco Modigliani, James Tobin, Robert Solow and William Vickrey were among the letter's signees.[2]
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The real challenge is once the land has been privatized how do you move it back to the commons.
Jan '24 •
… following Maslow discussion today
If we’re looking to incorporate human needs, Maslow is rather limited and dated (1941). There are other approaches which are more relevant. The common representation of Maslow as a pyramidal hierarch doesn’t bear much scrutiny. Eg. “Physiological” needs (food, shelter, clothing) can only be met if a person is already embedded in social structures and relations; there’s a lot of self-actualisation in materially poor communities, and often not a lot of self-actualisation among the barbaric rich. Etc etc The focus of Maslow is also on individuals so perhaps fits better with neoclassical methodological individualism, and meeting needs by market mechanisms. There are lots of other suitable frameworks. For example, Max-Neef’s Human Scale Development (1991) is better embedded in social, ecological, political contexts etc; it has useful concepts concerning “poverties”. Max-Neef was a dissident development and ecological economist…. There’s a link to the book in Max-Neef’s Wikipedia entry.
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Just some information and resources on Spiral Dynamics and Integral Theory. Spiral Dynamics Clare Graves worked with Maslow and was disappointed that Maslow’s theory of development did not receive more support in the 1950’s. Graves’ emergent cyclical theory, working with Don Beck and others, evolved that into Spiral Dynamics (1996). (1)(2) Don Beck visited South Africa during the 1980s and 1990s and met with the leaders there using emergent cyclical theory/Spiral Dynamics to assist in reconciling the different world views. (2) Spiral Dynamics can also help us understand the political division in the United States. (3) There are numerous Spiral Dynamics explainer videos on YouTube.(4)(5)(6) Spiral Dynamics References (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_W._Graves (2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_Dynamics (3) https://medium.com/bigger-picture/our-political-divisions-explained-943fcf4da197 (4) https://youtu.be/633_RWYzam4 (5) https://tmetric.com/spiral-dynamics-theory (6) https://thegreatupdraft.com/what-is-spiral-dynamics/ Integral Theory Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory, AQAL is a metatheory first defined in Sex, Ecology, Spirituality (1995), is similar to basic Spiral Dynamics but extends the framework.(1) Integral Theory contains and extends the development levels (in IT sometimes referred to as Altitudes) and then adds a four quadrant approach to viewing the world (Subjective-Objective) and (Singular-Collective). It continues with lines of development, states and types.(2) SUNY publishes a series on Integral Theory approaches to various subject areas.(3) As with Spiral Dynamics there are numerous introductory websites and videos on YouTube that explain Integral Theory.(4)(5)(6)(7)
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