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Structure
Altruistic Economics
AE106: Key Innovations of AE
V1.0
A presentation given to Grameen Software by Dr. Robin Upton.Grameen Bank Bhaban, Mirpur 2, Dhaka 1216, Bangladesh 2005-0?-??
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Recommended Pre-requisite: AE105: Blueprint for A People-Centred Economy
Innovation 1: Sympathy & The Network Of Care
Innovation 2: Multiple-Value PricingImplementation: Overview
Structure
Telephone Dilemma
This presentation motivates two of the key innovations of Altruistic Economics from first principles, without reference to Classical Economics.
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
Albert Einstein
Telephone Dilemma
International Telephone Dilemma
Someone rings your mobile (Aktel)
on a Grameen phone & asks if you can call back.
Which do you choose?
HE PAYS:
YOU PAY:
Grameen Aktel = 7/minute
Aktel Grameen = 3/minute
1a. Sympathy
Quantifying Sympathy
You would give up your own profit . to save a friend’s loss.
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FriendYou sympathy
You have sympathy iff…
Quantifying Sympathy
Friend of a Friend ?
0 13/7
Call BackDon’t Call
Sympathy:
Indifference value of s = 3 / 7
A stranger wants you to call them back…
They claim to be a ‘good’ friend of your friend.
Friend of a Friend?
Do you Call?
2. Network of Care
Friend FriendYou s ?
1b. Network of Care
Sympathy helps us appreciate the relationships of others
Not a Market!
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Not a Market!
Numeric Self-Expression
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… different contacts
… sympathy for trading partners
Closer to how people really do business than the market model.
… different sympathies
Everyone has
Numeric Self-Expression
. Two Dimensions of Feeling
…of self-expression in numbers.
Unhappier Happier
- +0
Money can be seen as training…
Two Dimensions of Feeling
. Creating, not Transferring Value
Suppose and work on a
project together:
Good for Both
Good for neither
Good for Blue
Good for Orange
0
+
-
-
+
Healthy Society
. Creating, not Transferring Value
Good for Both
Bad for Both
+
+
-
-
-
Lose-Lose Quadrant
A sick society has a lot of litigation, predatory
lending, rent-seeking etc.
Win-Win Quadrant
A healthy society has a lot activity here
Competitive Scoring
. Instinctive Competition
0
1
2
3
-1-2
-3
Left
Right
+
+
-
-
The blue lines show Win-Win and Lose-Lose
can get the same scores.
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Traditional Money = Value Transfer
Instinctive Competition
haggling can become deeply ingrained, even instinctive.
If we deal with strangers regularly…
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. Competitive Mentality
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. Cooperative Mentality
Science, Culture, Law, even Love …
From Tom and Jerry onwards, the competitive metaphor overshadows all areas of our lives.
Competitive Mentality
Cooperative Mentality
How to get away from win-lose
thinking ?
Cooperative mentality exists, but is frustrated by current economic forms.
. Cooperative Scoring
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Cooperative Scoring
A Fundamental Problem
Win-Win and Lose-Lose always get opposite
scores…
Left
Right
+
+
-
-
Created Value
Destroyed Value
0
-1
-2
-3
12
3
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… but interpersonal transfers aren’t
relevant at all…
Non-Traditional Money = Value Creation
A Fundamental Problem
So…
3 3. Multiple-Value Scoring
A single number can never reflect the value to both parties!
2. Multiple-Value Scoring
…we use a 2-dimensional
system!
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(X,Y)
X
Y
Implementation Overview
Independent evaluation
resolves the conflict
Implementation Overview
1. Gift Economy Interface
2. Altruistic Economics Data
3. Friend-2-Friend
4. Hardware
1. Gift Economy Interface
DONE
TO DO
TO DO
DO Some
1. Gift Economy Interface
= Web-based templates allow easy creation of Pages
2. Altruistic Economics Data
Aim: Bootstrapping development & fast adoption by WWW community
e.g: A Search Engine to match up people...
Offers Requests
Robin Upton, +160h –45h, Rate= -0.2Computer Hardware, Statistics, Foreign Languages, Bangladesh Contacts …
Kevin Towell, +14h –3h, Rate= -0.2Computer Hardware, Motorbike repair, Shop Management, Psychology …
Angela Robinson, +550h –175h, Rate= +2 Can you help me with my Laptop? The E-mail is giving me a lot…
Graham Upton, +3h –2h, Rate= +1.6I just can’t get my Wireless LAN working properly. It keeps cutting out, just …
Computer/Hardware/Repair
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2. Altruistic Economics Data
N.B. Equity does not need to be ‘enforced.’ (This is up to the system’s users)
3. Friend2Friend
= Standards for
Sympathy .
Evaluations
A B C
D
SBC
SCB
SBD
SAB
SBA
as a basis for interoperate software
-2h
+8h
3. Friend2Friend
= lightweight platform for secure connection & data exchange between selected peers
4. Hardware Layer
Specification of a simple standard will mean it can be implemented in any platforms desired.
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4. Hardware Layer
= network of devices that support IP-Traffic
Wired 802.11 GPRS 3G 802.16 802.20
Many generations of wireless internet technology are emerging…
Appendix: Designing An Internet . Gift Economy
Gift Economy
To survive, it must resist attack from ‘leechers’ !!!
Multi-Step Transactions
Command Economy
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