Forum Post: Request to remake a CC-BY-SA video on Five Intewoven Economies
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 14, 2011, 10:09 a.m. EST by derek
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This video is under a Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license (except the audio track) but, frankly, is just a dry lecture and has no visual appeal:
"Five Interwoven Economies: Subsistence, Gift, Exchange, Planned, and Theft: A simplified educational model about socioeconomics for understanding 21st century trends" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vK-M_e0JoY
"This video presents a simplified education model about socioeconomics and technological change. It discusses five interwoven economies (subsistence, gift, exchange, planned, and theft) and how the balance will shift with cultural changes and technological changes. It suggests that things like a basic income, better planning, improved subsistence, and an expanded gift economy can compensate in part for an exchange economy that is having problems."
The text is here: http://www.pdfernhout.net/media/FiveInterwovenEconomies.pdf
Could someone (or some team) who is good at cartoon drawing or some other graphical media please remake it into something funny and interesting to watch, putting it under the same CC-BY-SA license? Or maybe someone could just pick good free pictures and music to go with individual points and redo it that way? And of course it could be rewritten to improve it, too.
What could it look like when it is done?
The animation "The Story of Stuff" is a good example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GorqroigqM
As is this video pointing out problems with "Trusted Computing": http://www.lafkon.net/tc/
As is the "Did You Know" series: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUrEWe8
But those are just examples of much more interesting videos -- use your imagination and creativity of course.
Here is another way to remake such a video, with actors discussing or playing out different economic scenes (but this one left out gift transactions and theft transactions, as well as implications of technological change): "Four Economic Systems in Four Short Scenes " http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg_4ogC_yiE
And another one, with a different style, but again not covering all the aspects (leaving out gift and theft aspects, and not distinguishing traditional economies from subsitstence transactions): "Mrs Brown's Economics Class: Economic Systems" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIzkUrXWhCo
Both of these video consider a "mixed" economy as a type of economy. The Five Interwoven Economies video is more about five types of economic transactions possible and the shifting balance between them.
One of the reasons it is hard for people to think about with new economic approaches is that mainstream economics provides such a limited palette of ideas to work with (like leaving out the gift economy, or thinking about the potential of robotics and 3D printing, or mostly ignoring the basic income idea, or having flawed assumptions about most human motivation).
From "Appeal of teachers and researchers: Renewing the research and teaching in finance, economics and management to better serve the common good": http://www.responsiblefinance.ch/appeal/ "The authors of this appeal are deeply concerned that more than three years since the outbreak of the financial and macroeconomic crisis that highlighted the pitfalls, limitations, dangers and responsibilities of main-stream thought in economics, finance and management, the quasi-monopolistic position of such thought within the academic world nevertheless remains largely unchallenged. This situation reflects the institutional power that the unconditional proponents of main-stream thought continue to exert on university teaching and research. This domination, propagated by the so-called top universities, dates back at least a quarter of a century and is effectively global. However, the very fact that this paradigm persists despite the current crisis, highlights the extent of its power and the dangerousness of its dogmatic character. Teachers and researchers, the signatories of the appeal, assert that this situation restricts the fecundity of research and teaching in economics, finance and management, diverting them as it does from issues critical to society."
Occupy Wall Street can help get people everywhere talking and thinking about the main issue in that appeal (whether by funny videos or other means). So, maybe the #ows movement needs to "occupy" economics thinking with alternatives, too? :-) Videos are one way, but so are poems, songs, stories, posters, discussion salons/coffeehouses, books, cartoons, photographs, and so on.
Other good example videos, all from the RSA:
"RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us " http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
"RSA Animate - 21st century enlightenment" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC7ANGMy0yo
"RSA Animate - The Secret Powers of Time " http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3oIiH7BLmg
"RSA Animate - The Empathic Civilisation" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7AWnfFRc7g