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09 Questions for economics
If relationship is the currency, economics needs new questions – and new places where they can be tested.
What is value?
If not price and exchange, then what? Links: Karl Polanyi (the economy embedded in relationships), Marcel Mauss (the gift).
How do communities govern commons?
Elinor Ostrom showed that communities can govern commons themselves over the long term – with clear rules like those of the ten principles.
What lasts?
Action research: accompany a community and its farms for a season and ask what remains and what grows.
Invitation
Build your own work on this, explore the TEIKEI wiki and share what you find. Follow-up page 99.1 collects all the ways in.