Allen Butcher on Allocation Mechanisms for Community Economics
Contents
Biographical Material
- Allen Butcher ; detailed material at http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Community_Economics
Bibliographic Material
Books:
- 1997. Time-Based Economics: A Community Building Dynamic. Self-published. Contains the typology: Anti-Quota Labor System ; Fair-Share Labor System ; Labor Quota System
- 2007. Gifting and Sharing: Living the Plenty Paradigm in Cohousing and Communal Society. Self-published.
Articles:
- 2003. “Communal Economics.” Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World. Christensen, Karen and David Levinson (editors). Sage Publications.
Graphics:
- The Ownership Control Matrix: a two-dimensional model of political-economic structures, with common to private ownership on the horizontal axis and participatory to authoritarian political structures on the vertical axis, and a mid-range for each, resulting in nine different political/economic systems
- The Political Spiritual Matrix: a two-dimensional model combining forms of spiritual beliefs (see the spiritual/economic matrix) on the horizontal axes with forms of governance from participatory to authoritarian on the vertical axis
Excerpts
Communal Economics vs. Exchange Economics
A. Allen Butcher:
"All of the various types of intentional communities use some form of sharing system, or some degree of communal economics. Any organization having a labor contribution for which there is no monetary or other compensation given in exchange for their labor could be said to use a “time economy.” (Butcher 1997) Note that labor exchange systems such as time dollars are a form of time economy, yet they are not communal economies or sharing economies, they are exchange economies. A communal economy exists when members share the fruit of their labor as common property, rather than distribute that fruit to the members as personal property." (http://www.culturemagic.org/TimeBasedEconomics.html)
