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Making economies ‒ an EML community call
Tue 9 December ️
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Initiated by @ecsa.io b2b @sitra.fi, The Futures of Economic Growth.
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Making economies ‒ an EML community call
Tue 9 December ️
15:30 Cork = 16:30 Madrid = 17:30 Helsinki
Register here: cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...
#makingeconomies
Initiated by @ecsa.io b2b @sitra.fi, The Futures of Economic Growth.
No AI used in the making of this post.
December 3, 2025 at 8:10 AM
🛵 Let’s make economies.
Making economies ‒ an EML community call
Tue 9 December ️
15:30 Cork = 16:30 Madrid = 17:30 Helsinki
Register here: cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...
#makingeconomies
Initiated by @ecsa.io b2b @sitra.fi, The Futures of Economic Growth.
No AI used in the making of this post.
Making economies ‒ an EML community call
Tue 9 December ️
15:30 Cork = 16:30 Madrid = 17:30 Helsinki
Register here: cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...
#makingeconomies
Initiated by @ecsa.io b2b @sitra.fi, The Futures of Economic Growth.
No AI used in the making of this post.
We will be introducing some basic conceptions that show how economic organisation, at large and small, is a design space that can ‒ and needs to ‒ be intervened in creatively. We'll share examples of how this designing is being done right now, and then leave time to explore this all in conversation.
December 3, 2025 at 8:10 AM
We will be introducing some basic conceptions that show how economic organisation, at large and small, is a design space that can ‒ and needs to ‒ be intervened in creatively. We'll share examples of how this designing is being done right now, and then leave time to explore this all in conversation.
🧸 Let’s make economies.
Making economies ‒ an EML community call
Tue 9 December
️15:30 Lisbon = 16:30 Vienna = 17:30 Tallinn
Register here: cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...
#makingeconomies
Initiated by @ecsa.io b2b @sitra.fi, The Futures of Economic Growth.
No AI used in the making of this post.
Making economies ‒ an EML community call
Tue 9 December
️15:30 Lisbon = 16:30 Vienna = 17:30 Tallinn
Register here: cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...
#makingeconomies
Initiated by @ecsa.io b2b @sitra.fi, The Futures of Economic Growth.
No AI used in the making of this post.
November 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
🧸 Let’s make economies.
Making economies ‒ an EML community call
Tue 9 December
️15:30 Lisbon = 16:30 Vienna = 17:30 Tallinn
Register here: cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...
#makingeconomies
Initiated by @ecsa.io b2b @sitra.fi, The Futures of Economic Growth.
No AI used in the making of this post.
Making economies ‒ an EML community call
Tue 9 December
️15:30 Lisbon = 16:30 Vienna = 17:30 Tallinn
Register here: cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...
#makingeconomies
Initiated by @ecsa.io b2b @sitra.fi, The Futures of Economic Growth.
No AI used in the making of this post.
Join us on Tuesday, 9 December, for a community call with the Economic Media Lab. We'll introduce a couple of basic concepts in economic designing through some concrete examples, then leave the biggest chunk of time for exploring in conversation the perspective on economics as a creative space.
November 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Join us on Tuesday, 9 December, for a community call with the Economic Media Lab. We'll introduce a couple of basic concepts in economic designing through some concrete examples, then leave the biggest chunk of time for exploring in conversation the perspective on economics as a creative space.
To force other economies into existence, we must engage creatively with economic matters by nourishing public literacy and, especially, creative power to spur what is at basis a collective design task: other economies have to be made, by us.
November 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
To force other economies into existence, we must engage creatively with economic matters by nourishing public literacy and, especially, creative power to spur what is at basis a collective design task: other economies have to be made, by us.
From complementary currencies, to other-value accounting, collaborative finance, and distributed credit issuance and clearance, and across application fields from cooperative housing to FLOSS software and energy commons, these possibilities can, and need to be designed.
November 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
From complementary currencies, to other-value accounting, collaborative finance, and distributed credit issuance and clearance, and across application fields from cooperative housing to FLOSS software and energy commons, these possibilities can, and need to be designed.
Network economics ‒ economic self-organisation at a collective scale ‒ is a set of perspectives that opens up possibilities for authoring other ways of economic coordination beside and beyond this centralising logic.
November 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Network economics ‒ economic self-organisation at a collective scale ‒ is a set of perspectives that opens up possibilities for authoring other ways of economic coordination beside and beyond this centralising logic.
… it also is one whose logic builds on the technical roots of paper-based communication, where information is collected at the network centres and broadcast back from there as naturalised guidance.
November 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
… it also is one whose logic builds on the technical roots of paper-based communication, where information is collected at the network centres and broadcast back from there as naturalised guidance.
… we continue to perpetuate the idea of The Economy as a quasi natural domain whose universal laws can only be shaped by elite institutions.
Apart from this imagination being the outcome of centuries of political massaging, …
Apart from this imagination being the outcome of centuries of political massaging, …
November 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
… we continue to perpetuate the idea of The Economy as a quasi natural domain whose universal laws can only be shaped by elite institutions.
Apart from this imagination being the outcome of centuries of political massaging, …
Apart from this imagination being the outcome of centuries of political massaging, …
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@ecsa.io b2b @sitra.fi, The Futures of Economic Growth: Scenario 2
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@ecsa.io b2b @sitra.fi, The Futures of Economic Growth: Scenario 2
November 15, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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@ecsa.io b2b @sitra.fi, The Futures of Economic Growth: Scenario 2
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@ecsa.io b2b @sitra.fi, The Futures of Economic Growth: Scenario 2
This is not a new currency. It is a way of updating the grammar of accounting to recognise what really matters.
November 15, 2025 at 9:53 AM
This is not a new currency. It is a way of updating the grammar of accounting to recognise what really matters.
In difference to existing carbon credit schemes which remain accounted for in Euros, introducing an ECO unit would mean that a new page in balance sheets would open, by way of which corporations would account for their performances in terms of sustainability.
November 15, 2025 at 9:53 AM
In difference to existing carbon credit schemes which remain accounted for in Euros, introducing an ECO unit would mean that a new page in balance sheets would open, by way of which corporations would account for their performances in terms of sustainability.
Finland can then offer support for sustainability projects as ECO-denominated credit. Organisations receiving this support could convert ECOs to Euros at a set rate to fund these projects, but would have to repay given credit in ECO units — which is: by generating verified sustainability outcomes.
November 15, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Finland can then offer support for sustainability projects as ECO-denominated credit. Organisations receiving this support could convert ECOs to Euros at a set rate to fund these projects, but would have to repay given credit in ECO units — which is: by generating verified sustainability outcomes.
🫧 Imagine: Finland issues a new unit of account called ECO which doesn’t compute to monetary exchange but represents sustainability performances, as defined per a mix of indicators.
November 15, 2025 at 9:53 AM
🫧 Imagine: Finland issues a new unit of account called ECO which doesn’t compute to monetary exchange but represents sustainability performances, as defined per a mix of indicators.
But subsidies-for-profit remain unfit for purpose: If environmental sustainability does not itself appear as profit, the need emerges to measure and account for corporate performance in units which express sustainability itself.
November 15, 2025 at 9:53 AM
But subsidies-for-profit remain unfit for purpose: If environmental sustainability does not itself appear as profit, the need emerges to measure and account for corporate performance in units which express sustainability itself.
However, important strategies for environmental sustainability appear unprofitable to this accounting system. It is therefore that states are called upon to subsidise environmental projects: to make them “profitable” — in this grammar.
November 15, 2025 at 9:53 AM
However, important strategies for environmental sustainability appear unprofitable to this accounting system. It is therefore that states are called upon to subsidise environmental projects: to make them “profitable” — in this grammar.
This results in all balance sheet entries — and hence, the “bottom line” — to be measured in reference to Euro-denominated profit.
November 15, 2025 at 9:53 AM
This results in all balance sheet entries — and hence, the “bottom line” — to be measured in reference to Euro-denominated profit.
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@ecsa.io b2b @sitra.fi, The Futures of Economic Growth: Scenario 1
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@ecsa.io b2b @sitra.fi, The Futures of Economic Growth: Scenario 1
November 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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@ecsa.io b2b @sitra.fi, The Futures of Economic Growth: Scenario 1
An SME unable to get a bank loan now can use this score to trade, hire, grow.
This is not a new currency. It is a new protocol for flow.
This is not a new currency. It is a new protocol for flow.
November 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
An SME unable to get a bank loan now can use this score to trade, hire, grow.
This is not a new currency. It is a new protocol for flow.
This is not a new currency. It is a new protocol for flow.
🫧 Imagine: 5,000 SMEs across Finland register their invoices into a clearing platform. Every Monday, the protocol runs: 6.8M € worth of payables is netted out into 1.2M € of final settlements. Firms start seeing “credit received” on their dashboards — not from loans, but from mutual performance.
November 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
🫧 Imagine: 5,000 SMEs across Finland register their invoices into a clearing platform. Every Monday, the protocol runs: 6.8M € worth of payables is netted out into 1.2M € of final settlements. Firms start seeing “credit received” on their dashboards — not from loans, but from mutual performance.
In Slovenia, this type of system has discharged debts worth 7.5% of national GDP in just one year. In Sardinia, the result has been a reduction of the order of 25% of bank-money needed to clear obligations in the network.
November 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
In Slovenia, this type of system has discharged debts worth 7.5% of national GDP in just one year. In Sardinia, the result has been a reduction of the order of 25% of bank-money needed to clear obligations in the network.
These are not alternative currencies, but protocols — a domain of design traditionally only accessible from the level of banks and large corporations — that allow businesses to settle their invoices multilaterally and issue trust-based credit to each other.
November 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
These are not alternative currencies, but protocols — a domain of design traditionally only accessible from the level of banks and large corporations — that allow businesses to settle their invoices multilaterally and issue trust-based credit to each other.