Economic Space Agency

Coming out also in English later in this spring as "What is Growth in a Programmable Economy?"

It's released! We recommend - for everyone with the (economic) language capability.

For those in Helsinki, this is going to be fun - on this Sunday at #Käännefestival

This weekend at the Käänne festival, on SUN 18.1. at 12-13 #Käännefestival #KÄÄNNE #economicmedialab #economicspaceagency #ecsa

NEW @greenpillnet ep just dropped 🔥 @econaut6 (co-founder @ecospaceagency) + co-authors Dick Bryan & Jorge Lopez unpack their mind-bending book *Protocols for Post-Capitalist Expression* Key takeaways: 💸 Capital *is* a protocol 🆕 Post-capitalism is possible via new economic grammars 🌐 Programmable money gives us tools for a better economy If econ + coordination + code = your jam, this one's for you 👇 🌐 Timestamps 00:00 – Intro: Welcome to the new Greenpill season — exploring tech, coordination & Protopia 00:40 – Introducing guest Akseli Virtanen and co-authors Dick Bryan & Jorge Lopez 02:00 – What is Protocols for Post-Capitalist Expression about? 03:20 – Computational networks as new economic media 04:00 – The problem: today’s systems run on outdated economic logic 05:10 – Why we need new economic languages to express ecological and social value 06:20 – Viewing the economy as a networking protocol 07:00 – Capital as a coordination protocol, not a natural law 08:40 – How protocol politics define power and participation 09:40 – Why political change must happen at the level of infrastructure 11:20 – Understanding capital as an accounting protocol 12:10 – The interdisciplinary process of co-authoring the book 13:30 – Why protocols are the new unit of economic intervention 14:50 – How distributed protocols can re-engineer value systems 16:00 – Multiple logics of measurement: beyond price and profit 17:40 – How new metrics of “use value” redefine what counts as surplus 19:20 – Defining post-capitalism: new grammars for value creation 20:00 – Living “in the spread” between capitalism and post-capitalism 21:30 – The shift from exchange value to use value 23:00 – Distributed economic agency: moving power to the network edge 25:30 – Defining the Economic Space Agency — what it means to co-author economies 27:30 – Surplus logic: from profit to utility 29:00 – Designing programmable economic spaces for collective value 30:50 – How post-capitalism can interoperate with existing markets 33:10 – Why public goods need new accounting categories 35:00 – Coordination beyond the state: self-sustaining networks of value 37:00 – The liquidity problem: bootstrapping new economic systems 38:30 – Designing a bridge between capital and post-capital 40:20 – Respecting both systems’ internal logics for sustainable coexistence 42:30 – Innovation: the bridge as a design breakthrough 44:00 – Formalizing economics in programmable code 45:40 – How distributed systems expand what’s economically possible 47:30 – How to get involved: joining EXA’s newsletter & Economic Media Lab 48:30 – Final reflections: multiple metrics of value and economic imagination 49:10 – Closing remarks: keep building, experimenting, and coordinating

Economies are design spaces.

This shapes their outcomes, limitations, and the economic agency they afford to participants.

The economy is a computer.

@iC @stevesi @redstone_defi did you read what we wrote? what we are making is not an app

@stevesi 'Business content' in enterprise software seems poised for an overhaul. I suspect profits will follow applications that are both distributed and finance connected. Some sort of modular blockchain and data-driven AI biz apps. @redstone_defi @ecospaceagency news.ecsa.io/ecsa-roadmap-j…

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we're working on our new website right now and it's really so so so good in the mean time, why not revisit our whitepaper which is a book, Protocols for Postcapitalist Expression, on our custom co-publishing platform (designed by Pablo Somonte Ruano). link below

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let's do new accounting

dear friends and collaborators, check out our latest bulletin: towards economic space agency in lower case. read more below. we look forward to seeing you