Pathways
Pathways Toward a Global Resource-Based Economy A Pluralist Architecture for Governing the Commons in the Age of Artificial Intelligence — A Detailed Exposé Contents Foreword 1. Historical and Intellectual Roots 1.1. The Technocracy movement and energy accounting 1.2. The Venus Project and the phrase "resource-based economy" 1.3. The socialist calculation debate 1.4. Cybersyn: cybernetics in the service of planning 1.5. Elinor Ostrom and the governance of the commons 1.6. The contemporary deliberative wave 2. The Five Founding Principles 3. The Proposed Architecture: Five Layers 4. The Role of Artificial Intelligences in Detail 5. Scientific Foundations: Planetary Boundaries and the Social Floor 6. Transition Pathways 7. Open Problems and Objections Conclusion References and Related Reading Foreword How should the resources of a finite planet be allocated in a manner at once efficient, fair and sustainable? This question, as old as political eco...