
Category Archives: Gift economy
From Philanthropy to De-Accumulation

Material Risk Sharing for a Livable Future
From Exchange to Gifting Part Three: Reintegrating into Flow One Experiment at a Time
From Exchange to Gifting Part Two: Beyond the Exchange/Gift Binary

From Exchange to Gifting Part One: Why We Need to Find Our Way out of Scarcity
Every Tree Wants to Make a Forest: Choice, Togetherness, and the Maternal Gift Economy
Visionary Functioning: Shifting Resource Flow Systems from Incentive to Willingness

(An edited excerpt from the “Resource Flow Systems” learning packet)
Our modern forms of engaging with resources are based on a deep-seated belief about human nature that is so pervasive that it almost never gets said explicitly: that we are only motivated by self-interest, narrowly defined, and that we won’t …
As Things Get Worse

For the last hundred years or so, significant portions of the population within so-called liberal democracies in the global north have known comfort, ease, and personal liberties that have been unprecedented since at least the patriarchal turn. It’s not a new phenomenon for some people within a stratified society to …