Mutual Coordination Economics Working Group

= an initiative to share insight around non-market, non-state based mutual coordination in production and economics

Alternative Name: Cybernetic Economics

Discussion

Name of the Group

1. David Potocnik:

"My original intention was to form a study group & redevelopment project on the ashes of the Cybersyn project.

Perhaps the name Cybernetic economics would be more fitting.

In this context, I'm looking fwd to seeing what you mean with "Mutual Coordination Economics" and "an initiative to share insight around non-market, non-state based mutual coordination in production and economics"

As far as this I personally

• agree with the non-market
• would not limit to non-state
• emphasis on distribution guiding production

2. Michel Bauwens:

I have no objection to changing the name.

My own idea is: what pricing is to the market and planning is to the bureaucratic state, mutual coordination is to economics based on open and shared commons.

Participants

• Jean-Daniel Cusin
• Angela Espinosa
• Lynn Foster
• Bob Haugen
• David Potocnik
• Enrique Rivera
• Jon Walker

Other Researchers

• Raul Espejo, former director of the cybersyn project, now living in Lincoln UK; http://www.syncho.com/

Projects

Current Projects

1. Cyberfilter
2. Lorea

Past Projects

• Cybersyn ; Socialist Cybernetics in Allende’s Chile

Tools

Viable System Model Software

Jon Walker:

• Jose Perez Rios in Madrid has this http://www.vsmod.org Which is for modelling and diagnosis. Downloadable for free. I've not used it but reports says it's difficult to use.

• SCiO ( bunch of cyberneticians in Manchester - I'm a member) have something called an organisational maturity model ( again downloadable) http://www.scio.org.uk/organisational-maturity-model which asks lots of questions and helps you to do a VSM diagnosis.

• Raul Espejo has Viplan which was developed after Chile and used extensively in his work since then - also explains the VSM, guides you through a diagnosis and is downloadable with Raul's permission.

http://www.syncho.org

Topics

Cybernetics

1. Cybernetic Communism
2. Cybernetic Planning
3. Cybernetic Self-Management
4. Cybernetic Socialism ; Towards a New Cybernetic Socialism ; Socialist Cybernetics in Allende’s Chile
5. Cybernetics and Governance
6. Red Cybernetics

Market

1. End of the Market
2. Self Managed Market Socialism
3. Self-Managed Economy

Planning

1. Collaborative Planning
2. Decentrally Planned Economy
3. Democracy and Economic Planning
4. Democratic Planning
5. Open Source Planning
6. Participatory Planning
7. Planned Economy
8. Planning
9. Planning through the Market

Stigmergic

1. Stigmergic Collaboration
2. Stigmergic Revolution
3. Stigmergic Dimensions of Online Creative Interaction
4. Stigmergic Science
5. Stigmergic Organization and the Economics of Information
6. Stigmergy

Other

1. Democratic Technics
2. Economies of Integration
3. Hint-Based Systems
4. Holoptism ; Anoptism
5. Mutual Coordination of Production
6. Negotiated Coordination ; Participatory Coordination
7. Non-Market Calculation ; Problem of Economic Calculability
8. Peer Production ; Production for Use
9. Polyarchy
10. Red Plenty Platforms
11. Socialism of the 21st Century - Heinz Dieterich: "To be successfull, socialism must match the cybernetic complexity of capitalist states."
12. Value Accounting System
13. Viable Systems Model

Documentation

• The Stafford Beer Archive at Liverpool John Moores University Digital Collections [1]

Articles

1. Axiomatization of Socio-Economic Principles for Self-Organizing Institutions
2. Cybernetics of Governance and the Cybersyn Project
3. Engineering Self-Organising Systems
4. Red Plenty Platforms

Books

1. Cybernetic Revolutionaries. Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile. By Eden Medi [2] ; [3]

Fiction

1. Red Plenty. Francis Spufford. 'Factional/fictional' account of the failed Soviet experiment at cybernetic planning.
2. Synco

Other Reference Material

• section in the Commons Transition Plan: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#Mutual_coordination_mechanisms_in_the_new_.27ethical.27_enterpreneurial_coalitions:_Cybersin_redux_.3F