Note: This work-in-progress note is superseded by a P2PF publication: Bauwens & Pazaitis (2019), Accounting for planetary survival.

Systems of peer-to-peer, ‘open value’ accounting - the topic of this report - are vital for making global-local systems of material provision and access, of material means of subsistence and wellbeing - the basic agenda of landscape §1 in the foprop pattern language. The pattern language will have several key patterns relating to this area of post-Fordist, value-chain, organisational capability and material provision.

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The notes below give a flavour of the coverage in the 2019 published report.

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In the Loomio Open App Ecosystem group, Michel Bauwens of P2PF posted the following synopsis of a work in progress at 01aug18.  NOTE: Highlights and emphasis are added [mh] . .

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This is re-posted within the Loomio group, with a commentary on the Open App Ecosystem by Bob Haugen, here

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This is basic work toward framing patterns involving . . operational coordinating of #supplychain activity, mutually orienting practice in #openvalue systems, deploying #hashchain technologies, implementing thermodynamic accounting, mutualising #naturalagents as economic actors . . and other fundamental aspects of commoning practice in the #generative #usevalue economy of everyday making and need.

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Title: Turning Externalities into Internalities

Subtitle: Is it possible to produce for human needs without externalities

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Chapter 1: Introduction and Context

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• The emergence of post-subordinate autonomous workers: the role of labor mutuals and platform cooperatives in the commons economy (the blockchain economy as a tool for contributory cognitive labor)

 

** crypto economy as a re-balancing of power between labor and capital

** crypto economy as network-dominant economy beyond corporate and state power

** role of labour mutuals

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• Value in the Commons: a summary of previous findings (value sovereignty, transvestment strategies, reverse cooptation of capital for the commons)

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• Evaluating the Emergence of the Crypto Economy from the point of view of the commons (mobilizing competency networks for common goals; towards commons-based DAO’s ?) so

 

** critique of market totalitarianism (leviathan, hobbes and gaia)

** crypto as sovereignity of the corporate class vs sovereignty of civil society (need to disentangle both) (five scenario’s of manski)

** distinguishing distrlbuted ledgers from the blockchain (explain ledgers and DLT’s), also in relation to trust

** rebalancing capital and labor for cognitive production: learning from the token economy

** transforming the token economy for the commons (in detail, what the shift entails, f.e. From competitive to cooperative games, from smart contracts, to ostrom contracts)

** two kinds of economics (Polany’s distinction)

** scaling trust (big brother to little brother)

** from govt and corporate, third party coordination to autonomous network coordination

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• The Role of Accounting in the Shift towards the Peer Production of Everything (accounting as mediation with the physical, bringing stigmergy to material production through open and shared supply chains, )

 

** history of ledgers ?

** explain 3 layer model

** explain functional governance transition

** local vs global (example from city graph 3.6)

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• Solving the Problem of Externalities: towards an externalities-free mode of production ? (how can externalities be normalized as internalities in predistributive social distribution and regenerative ecological production)

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Chapter 2: Evolutions in Accounting

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• Accounting for contributions (positive social)

 

** predistribution within commons

** basic income in society

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• Maintaining acceptable social distribution, i.e. relative equality in the distribution of value (negative social)

 

** from redistribution to predistribution

** acceptable inequalities

** learning from the past (hunter-gatherers, ancient democracies, medieval communes)

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• Respecting the Doughnut (negative ecological): how to stay within planetary boundaries while providing for human needs

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• Thermodynamic Accounting or: biophysical accountability (positive ecological): accessing thermodynamic flows in open and shared supply chains

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Chapter 3: The Emerging toolbox

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• Supply chain projects: Provenance, Oxchain, Open Motors, Wikifactory, Envianta ?

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• Distributed ledgers (Holochain): going beyond extractive blockchains

 

** distributed ledgers as the open and shared supply chains

** tokens for valuing non-mercantile value

** generative finance: social and ecological

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• Ostrom Contracts ? (David Dao): smart contracts for commons-based DAOs

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• REA (Resource-Event-Agent) Accounting for Eco-systems (from corporate to ecosystemic open and shared supply chains)

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• Ethical current-sees? Monitoring flows and rewarding contributions: The Economic Space Agency: mutualizing investment, risk-taking and speculation (commons-based derivatives for financing future common production), Faircoin/Commoncoin + learning from labor allocation in intentional communities (Allen Butcher’s work)

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• Tokens for Regenerativity (Regen’’s Ecological State Protocols; circular financing of regenerative practices)

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• Impact Accounting through the Common Good Economy

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• Global Thresholds and Allocations for biophysical accountability (the Reporting 3.0 framework)

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• Large scale governance (Daostack’s holographic governance)

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• Designing Cooperative games instead of competitive games (RChain) ?

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• DAO’s for natural agents: the Terra0 project for augmented forests

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• ? Trustlines Network ?

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