Paul Aligica and Vlad Tarko: Polycentricity: From Polanyi to Ostrom, and Beyond. The article overviews and elaborates the concept of polycentricity, defined as a structural feature of social systems of many decision centers having limited and autonomous prerogatives and operating under an overarching set of rules. The article starts by introducing the concept as it was advanced by Michael Polanyi and developed by Elinor Ostrom and Vincent Ostrom. It continues introducing possible instances of polycentricity as well as related notions, as part of an attempt to further elaborate the concept through a concept design approach that systematically applies the logic of necessary and sufficient conditions. The article concludes by arguing that the polycentricity conceptual framework is not only a robust analytical structure for the study of complex social phenomena, but is also a challenging method of drawing nonad hoc analogies between different types of selforganizing complex social systems. (polycentric governance) (more)

Elinor Ostrom: Beyond Markets and States - Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems. Common pool resources (CPRs) (commons) and public goods at multiple scales builds on classical economic theory while developing new theory to explain phenomena that do not fit in a dichotomous world of “the market” and “the state.” (more)

In economics, a public good is a good that is both non-excludable and non-rivalrous in that individuals cannot be effectively excluded from use and where use by one individual does not reduce availability to others... This is in contrast to a common good which is non-excludable but is rivalrous to a certain degree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good (more)

Ron Purser: It is a pity that you quote the definition of a system from On Purposeful Systems. That was one of the things I had hoped to correct in our second, revised edition. This second edition never came to pass. (more)

see Systems Thinking, Complex System, etc.

Karin Backstrand: Accountability of Networked Climate Governance: The Rise of Transnational Climate Partnerships. Public-private partnerships (PPP) have been advanced as a new tool of global governance, which can supply both effective and legitimate governance. The around 300 multistakeholder partnerships launched at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) have gained public attention and been subject to scholarly assessment.1 The aim of this paper is twofold: to categorize and map the landscape of transnational climate partnerships and to evaluate the accountability of different types of partnerships. (climate change) (more)

Michael Polanyi FRS[1] (/poʊˈlænji/ poh-LAN-yee; Hungarian: Polányi Mihály; 11 March 1891 – 22 February 1976) was a Hungarian-British[2] polymath, who made important theoretical contributions to physical chemistry, economics, and philosophy. He argued that positivism is a false account of knowing... His wide-ranging research in physical science included chemical kinetics, x-ray diffraction, and adsorption of gases... The contributions which Polanyi made to the social sciences include the concept of a polycentric spontaneous order and his rejection of a value neutral conception of liberty. They were developed in the context of his opposition to central planning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Polanyi

Karl Paul Polanyi (/poʊˈlænji/; Hungarian: Polányi Károly [ˈpolaːɲi ˈkaːroj]; 25 October 1886 – 23 April 1964)[1] was an Austro-Hungarian economic anthropologist, economic sociologist, and politician,[2] best known for his book The Great Transformation, which questions the conceptual validity of self-regulating markets.[3] In his writings, Polanyi advances the concept of the Double Movement, which refers to the dialectical process of marketization and push for social protection against that marketization. He argues that market-based societies in modern Europe were not inevitable but historically contingent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Polanyi cf free market

Robin Berjon's pieces over the last year have me looking into network governance designs.... but he links largely to academic papers, which quickly MEGO. What am I looking for???? (more)

Cedric Chin: Dancing Landscapes in Business. I had a conversation with Dr. Rand Spiro. Spiro is the primary researcher behind Cognitive Flexibility Theory. (more)

Management cybernetics is concerned with the application of cybernetics to management and organizations. "Management cybernetics" was first introduced by Stafford Beer in the late 1950s and introduces the various mechanisms of self-regulation applied by and to organizational settings, as seen through a cybernetics perspective. Beer developed the theory through a combination of practical applications and a series of influential books. The practical applications involved steel production, publishing and operations research in a large variety of different industries. (more)

Robin Berjon: The Public Interest Internet. Transnational Digital Public Infrastructure, Tech Governance, and Industrial Policy (more)

Robin Berjon on ActivityPub Over ATProto. With relatively little work, we could run ActivityPub atop an AT Protocol PDS. (more)

Robin Berjon: Web Tiles. Trust has been the defining constraint on the Web's evolution towards more powerful, more applicative capabilities (more)

Robin Berjon: You're Gonna Need A Bigger Browser. If we're agreed that the Web is for user agency, then in order to figure out where the Web goes next we should probably spend some time looking at user agents a.k.a. web browsers. (more)

Robin Berjon: Building The Next Web. The Ship of Theseus thought experiment which has been keeping philosophers employed for centuries: if every component of the ship were replaced one by one over time, is the resulting ship the same as the initial one? (more)

Robin Berjon: Fixing Search. We Don't Have To Put Up With Broken Search. This week and next, all of tech policy is dizzily watching Google be put on trial by the US government for monopolisation of search. (anti-trust) (more)

Robin Berjon: Decent Imaginaries. Many of us, across the online, can feel the era burn and rot away. But this twilight of the gods tells us nothing of what renewal ought to look like when morning comes. And so the question: what now? (more)

Author of Deschooling Society, Tools For Conviviality (more)

aka "HTML over-the-wire". Hotwire is an alternative approach to building modern web applications without using much JavaScript by sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire. This makes for fast first-load pages, keeps template rendering on the server, and allows for a simpler, more productive development experience in any programming language, without sacrificing any of the speed or responsiveness associated with a traditional single-page application. Based on Turbo, TurboLinks, Stimulus. https://hotwired.dev/ (see BaseCamp, RubyOnRails) (more)