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A Community of Knowledge Assets

by Dan Robles

Our culture organizes itself around winners and losers. Corporations reflect this competitive nature to the core of their Capitalist doctrine. Sports analogies abound across the enterprise straight through to the HR department always on the lookout for the most amount of superstar for the least amount of money.

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Video; Will Social Capitalism Replace the Corporation?

by Dan Robles

There is very little about a corporation that cannot be duplicated in social media. This calls into question the nature of social media vs. the nature of corporations. Here we uncover a third pillar to the US economic recovery; Social Capitalism.

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The Fundamental Flaw of NAFTA

by Dan Robles

Leading into 2010, The Ingenesist Project will release a series of videos that specify the construct of the Next Economic Paradigm. The following video discusses the flaw in modern globalization market economics that started with the failure of an obscure sub section of NAFTA – the free trade of services.

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In Search of A New Economic Paradigm; Part 1

by Dan Robles

It could be currency collapse, an environmental collapse, a pandemic collapse, a food collapse, a water collapse, Energy collapse, a political collapse, or any number of Black Swan events – something somewhere too big to fail will fail. When that happens, it will take everything else down with it. After all, that’s what too big to fail means.

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Goldman Sachs: Bernie Madoff on Steroids

by Dan Robles

The words “money” and “productivity” should be interchangeable. So, what exactly did Goldman Sachs produce in order to amass such astonishing amounts of “money?” Where is the corresponding astonishing productivity?

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YoVille Economics

by Dan Robles

I am amazed at how many of my friends say that they do not understand economics – then I visit their facebook page only to find all the trappings of advanced economic theory. Economics is the science of incentives and currency is the medium of exchange.

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Building The Social Economy

by Dan Robles

The following summary from Hannah Del Porto does a great job in identifying the State of the Art in Building The Social Economy. Such “Thought Infrastructure” is essential to what will evolve into the next economic paradigm.

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Social Currency; History Matters

by Dan Robles

History often provides clarity in the present. I was searching the term “Social Currency” and I found these two posts on a forum from all the way back in 2001. The authors are quite explicit in their expectations of social currency in their present and deep into the future.

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Socialism, Capitalism, or Social Capitalism

by Dan Robles

Throughout history, technological change has also brought changes in the organization of society around the new ways to allocate resources.  The industrial revolution spawned the two prevailing economic theories of our time; Capitalism and Socialism.  The current wave of technological change will likely spawn new economic theories and social organization systems as well.
Capitalism arose from [...]

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Social Media; An Alternate Universe of Wealth Creation

by Dan Robles

The trick is for society to organize itself in a slightly different way – this is where Social Media needs to position itself with the next generation of applications. If so, the business model for social media will become hugely important to an innovation economy – too important to fail.

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That Pesky Little problem With Market Capitalism

by Dan Robles

Technological change must always precede economic growth.  We are going about the process of market capitalism as if economic growth can precede technological change.  Somewhere along the line we have gotten the cart in front of the mule.
It seems that this situation can be fairly easily corrected – after all, it’s the same cart and [...]

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