Rome to Feudalism - lessons in coming economic transformation?
July 31st, 2008 by Gordon Cook
from Michel Bauwens to my Economics of IP networks list today:
Dear All,
I’ve been enjoying the latest exchanges about the mentalities of bureaucratic and corporate leaders, having been in similar environments before.
As you perhaps know, I have been more and more interested in the age of the transition to feudalism, where the Roman leadership similarly could not understand the new christian mentality
I think there is an important issue here: do distributed modes really outperform the centralized/decentralized modalities. If this is indeed so, then I suggest that we introduce a new concept: Peak Hierarchy, which I’m using as an analogy with peak oil,
Cook”s Edge: the first linbk goes to an outstanding u-tube video of Michel talking in Rome in front of the Colesseum.
[…] metaphor for this thesis. But when I read Michel Bauwens’ essay (thanks to a pointer from Gordon Cook) comparing the current fundamental, secular changes in societal organization driven by the […]