Marcus Petz and Andrius Kulikauskas invite us to investigate together:
How do economic forms impact community?
We envisage three steps in our investigation:
- What are economic forms?
- How do economic forms affect community?
- Can we rank economic forms along a spectrum between extremes of community and individuality?
- Can we describe each form as a pattern, in the sense of Christopher Alexander, where recurring activity evokes structure and structure channels activity?
- How does one form depend on other forms?
- What does a form indicate about a culture?
- What types of shifts occur from one economic form to another?
- What are historical examples?
- How are these examples related to concurrent social changes?
- Is it meaningful to distinguish constructive and destructive change?
- Is it meaningful to speak of progress or regress, natural or unnatural?
- What constructive interventions are effective?
- What are examples of desirable shifts in economic forms?
- What is the value of an economic form?
- How can the value of an economic form be measured and compared with other values including various forms of wealth?
- What is involved in the introduction or elimination, the rise or decline, the strengthening or weakening of economic forms?
- Are there tipping points where transformation of economic forms readily occurs?
- What are interventions that are effective at such tipping points?