Large Scale Social
Innovation
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hardy Hanappi
TU Vienna (Austria), Mathematical Economics
www.econ.tuwien.ac.at/hanappi/
[email protected]
Overview
Attack 3
Attack 1
Attack 2
Movement 5
Movement 3
Movement 1
Movement 4
Movement 2
Prelude
Overview
Prelude – Preliminaries
‘Large scale’
Species – nations – classes – families - individuals
Structure
‘Social Innovation’
Motion
Structural framing versus New Combinations
Political Regime 1
Economic
Process
Exogenously fixed
Political Regime 2
Revolution
Exogenously fixed
Revolution
Economic
Process
Economic
Process
Exogenously fixed
Political Regime 3
Slow Process
Evolutionary Political Economy
Fixed mechanisms
Regime 1
Fixed mechanisms
Regime 2
Structural framing
Metamorphosis
New combination
Social
Units
Metamorphosis
New combination
Prelude – Preliminaries
Movement One
New combination of old elements
Build-up of contradictions
Contradictions produce Diversity
Movement Two
More contradictions  Production of Diversity
Switch from quantity to quality
Emergence of social agents via consciousness
Movement Three
Consciousness? Out of troubled ‘mental’ models?
Solution: Two types of contradictions!
More detailed look at structural framing:
1. Contradictions as alienation; Marx, Gramsci, etc.
2. Contradictions between finite
environment and growth imperative
intensive
extensive
Movement Four
Metamorphosis in detail:
Phase transition when multiple sensitivity borders
are hit!
Institutional collapse at a specific level.
Upward and downward dissipations!
Movement Five
Simultaneous collapses at different levels.
Dissipation upwards and downwards.
Complicated emergence of global consciousness.
 GCOI, ABM, …
Different types of metamorphosis are possible,
different visions.
Large Scale Social Innovation Examples.
ENFIN
European Necessary Finance of North-Africa
By ECB or follower institution,
directed to consumers with obligation to
buy consumer goods domestically or from
EU. Need for new institutions.
Example 1
DEMEO
Democratic Media Organization
Political moratorium for private medium empires
Integration of the information sphere into the
democratic process (GCOI)
Internet: global central nervous system of the
species
Example 2
VOICE
Voting Integration continentally electronically
Fight local alienation
– embedded in global production & information.
New labour organization (new primary distribution)
New transnational finance (from ECB to global finance)
Example 3
What’s Next?
Writing – reading – re-writing –
communicating – acting as part of political
economy
Thank you for your attention
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