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Moneylab Reader:
new economic interventions

August 22, 2015Banking, Community Economics, Creative Industries, Digital Social Innovation, Economic Thought, Social Finance, The Key Fundcommunity economics, Georg Simmel, Institute of Netwrok Cultures, MoneyLab, SEEM, social business, social finance, sustainabilityThe SocEntEastMIds Team

As part of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences – the Institute of Network Cultures have recently published another document in their innovative and ground breaking research and thought leadership programme.

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See a copy here…pdf

The MoneyLab Reader – An intervention in Digital Economy, edited by Geert Lovink, Nathaniel Tkacz and Patricia de Vries, contains much that mainstream financiers may find provocative, but which takes positions which offer interesting new insights into the emerging digital economy.

Icon for Adobe PDF   View, print or download a copy of the book here.

This published work contains sections on new digital-economic forms, some subtle essays on how value can be driven and extracted from an open source, ‘Commons‘ based economy, as well as essays on Bitcoin and other complimentary currencies.

There is a strong section on the ‘Economies of the Imagination‘. This is mindful of one of the driving forces of the digital economy, which is the creation of art and artistic output through new mediums of distribution and payment.

Readers in the creative quarters across our region may find this section particularly energising.

‘MoneyLab, a network of artists, activists and researchers, founded in 2013 by the Amsterdam-based Institute of Network Cultures; its aim is to research, discuss, and experiment with (alternative) internet-related revenue models in the arts and beyond’.

In a powerful essay, The Long Game by Keith Hart, there is a telling argument that Georg Simmel’s prophesy of the withering of the physical substance of money and the emergence of revolutionary new social institutions supporting new, fiscally adroit communities of interest may already be upon us. (The Philosophy of Money: 1907).

Whilst this may not be new to mainstream bankers, the shift in fiscal power from lender to borrower, which this implies, will be a difficult concept for many.

However, in the newly emergent social finance sector we can see that new paradigms of fiscal effectiveness, lending tolerance and social outcome entwined in community values, are all currently abroad.

We commend this lengthy pamphlet to our readers…perhaps we are all living in a ‘Simmelcast’ world now?

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Ethical business with a social dimension…

 

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