Comments on New Currency Frontiers: Beyond Quid Pro Quo

Heres our attempt to create a gift economy with gi...

2010-11-30T16:23:23.321-08:00

Heres our attempt to create a gift economy with gift circles

http://opencollaboration.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/gift-circle-overview-of-project/

I think you hit on the heart of the matter Guillau...

2010-03-05T13:08:25.680-08:00

I think you hit on the heart of the matter Guillaume. There are many ways to measure efficiency. In this particular case, I am talking about the feedback loops that best support the development of humanity. Would a parent charging their child for breakfast support the development of that child? Obviously not. A child needs nurture and unconditional love. Under these circumstances, a child can best discover her own gifts. A community that supports people in discovering their gifts will clearly have greater output in terms of value than one that doesn't. The community must be free to measure that value as they they choose, so they can get a meaningful representation of themselves. That is what I mean by efficiency.

Heres my idea of how you can begin to transform a ...

2010-03-05T07:54:53.697-08:00

Heres my idea of how you can begin to transform a town/city into a gift economy. http://opencollaboration.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/on-growing-a-local-gift-economy/

The basic idea is to have a network of gift circles where a tribe forms around each gift circle, and their is also flow between the gift circles.

How do you measure the efficiency of the allocatio...

2010-03-04T14:05:38.744-08:00

How do you measure the efficiency of the allocation of naturally or human produced resources?