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Thanks Dan, these are unique perspectives and place certain presuppositions about our context into a more critical perspective indeed. These references led me to Douthwaite's title:
Short Circuit: Strengthening Local Economics for Security in an Unstable World Richard J. Douthwaite (Author)
This work has theoretical implications for an Anthropology of "localization" perhaps re-evaluating sprawl and some metrics of central place theory. It is interesting to note that the Deep History of Ideas from old European Cultural roots had much to do with sustaining a "self sufficiency" at the local levels. This ideal of self sufficiency paradoxically informs both the more Americanized "rugged individualism" that has been mythologized for the United States (in particular); but it also informed the "self sufficient" community idealism that had many tributaries in the deeper histories of an eclectic demographic from European developments (both divergent and consolidating).
I think there is a methodological "framework" that can be extrapolated from the more "prescribed" scaffolding that Douthwaite proposes for a more "forward projected" counter-global development. . From an Anthropological perspective this framework of measure for localization processes (both constructive and deconstructive) can be transposed into a methodological tool for measured observation and questions of both connectivity and disconnect for comparative studies of localization processes at work right now (against a very well entrenched trend of "privatization" agendas that are blindly usurping local resources to add back into this intensive and expansive "globalized" ponzi scheme.
In regards to crossing borders (both physically and mentally), we must constantly remind each other that how we "frame" the question will inevitably determine the derived conclusions and outcome we observe and present as phenomenological ethnography (and ultimately an ethnology of proportions that inform greater insights or discovery. The question of "bounded rationality" must be addressed in our own ego-ethnic-centric and I think that the "ecology of money" is a great example of establishing some metrics. I do believe that when Anthropology wakes up from its dream, we could take this notion to several levels and dimensions in both the scale and scope of a differential access to the money supply...and its path dependent consequences real time and fact-checked ethnography.
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Bruce E. Woych
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Thanks for great references for interrogating political economy. Another
two useful titles to add which concern the nature of money for purposes
beyond competition are:
1. Lietaer, Bernard. 2002. Future of Money. Random House.
2. Douthwaite, Richard. 2000. The Ecology of Money (Schumacher Briefings).
Green Books.
Dan V. Hirslund
PhD Student
Dept of Anthropology
University of Copenhagen
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>* Selected works in what might be better called "humanistic economics" by
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>Worth noting for both humanistic economics and methodological political
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>The ABC¹s of Political Economy: A Modern Approach by Robin Hahnel (Jan
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>Green Economics: Confronting the Ecological Crisis by Robin Hahnel (Dec
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>Economic Justice and Democracy: From Competition to Cooperation
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>(Pathways Through the Twenty-First Century) by Robin Hahnel (Mar 7, 2005)
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>The Political Economy of Participatory Economics by Michael Albert and
>Robin Hahnel (Mar 20, 1991)
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