Keynes on Post-Scarcity Society

Chernomas, Robert

doi:10.1080/00213624.1984.11504304

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“…Far from reveling in the anticipated fruits of a post-scarcity society (Chernomas, 1984;Giddens, 1995), today's advanced capitalist formation has become associated with evermore intensifying periods of economic stringency resulting, among other things, in significant reductions in levels of state funding to public universities. This has had profound effects on the structure and experience of university life because the university is expected to become both leaner and meaner in its operation and intent (Harrison, 1997).…”

Section: The Epistemic Crisis Of Kinesiologymentioning

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Kinesiology'sInconvenient Truthand the Physical Cultural Studies Imperative

Andrews¹

2008

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Section: The Epistemic Crisis Of Kinesiologymentioning

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Kinesiology'sInconvenient Truthand the Physical Cultural Studies Imperative

Andrews¹

2008

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“…To reach it, Mill assumed abundance enabling conditions such as long-term peace, law and order, and full employment connected to optimal levels of productivity (Xenos, 1987;Gallarotti, 2000). According to Heilbroner, Mill "prophesied the transformation of capitalism, in an environment of abundance, into a balanced economy, in which the capitalist, both as the generator of change and as the main claimant on the surplus generated by change, would in fact undergo a painless euthanasia" (Heilbroner, 1970, p. 282;Chernomas, 1984) In the same year, Marx, the father of socialism, rejected capitalism and its scarcity postulate. Still, Marx strongly believed that a technology driven economy of abundance was possible, under the condition of "democratizing" the means of production, and the equal distribution of wealth (Marx, 1988).…”

Section: The End Of Scarcitymentioning

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“…3. The political system and its institutions, including conservative thinking (Boulding et al, 1978, p. 13, 14;Chernomas, 1984Chernomas, , p. 1024). 4.…”

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Abundance and Equality

Kop

2022

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The technology driven post-scarcity society is upon us. Ubiquitous technologies are eradicating scarcity in many industries. These macroscopic system trends are causing our economy to transition from relative scarcity to relative abundance. For many people in the world however, in both developed, developing, and underdeveloped countries, the notion of an Age of Abundance will sound utterly bizarre. There is a tension between abundance and equality. Good governance considers in what manner the state conducts public policy, manages public resources and promotes overall prosperity. This chapter connects good governance to the end of scarcity and integrates equality into abundance. The chapter critically examines the normative justifications of our scarcity based legal institutions, such as property and intellectual property (IP) systems, in light of 10 exponential, Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) technologies, and the post-scarcity economy. Starting point is that absolute and relative abundance are not utopian. Technology will erase scarcity in more and more economic areas in the foreseeable future, but not everywhere or for everybody. The chapter views relative scarcity and relative abundance as temporal socio-economic categories at two opposite sides of a continuum. The chapter unifies good governance with equality and abundance, by introducing a post-Rawlsian Equal Relative Abundance (ERA) principle of distributive justice. This includes defining a set of material and immaterial primary goods, warranting adequate, sufficient levels of relative abundance (which depend on technological evolution), and equitable results per region or group. Crucially, ERA integrates desert-based principles to the degree that some may deserve a higher level of material goods because of inequality in contributions, i.e., their hard work, talent, luck or entrepreneurial spirit, only to the extent that their unequal rewards do also function to improve the position of the least advantaged. A society governed by the ERA principle should in theory be able to solve the poverty trap on a global level. As lifting people from poverty in Europe is a different thing than achieving ERA in the US, applying equal relative abundance techniques in Asia and Africa each have their own specific challenges and dimensions.

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“…The militarily inspired climate of educational/scientific accountability that prompted the climate of sub-disciplinization in the early 1960s, has been replaced by a complex amalgam of corporate, bureaucratic, political, and military interests, responsible for advancing not only science per se, but a particularly narrow and regressive understanding of, and role for, science within society. Further, and far from reveling in the anticipated fruits of a post-scarcity society (Chernomas, 1984;Giddens, 1995), today's rationalized capitalist formation has become associated with evermore intensifying periods of economic stringency resulting, amongst other things, in significant reductions in levels of state funding to public universities. This has had profound effects on the structure and experience of university life, since it is expected to become both leaner and meaner in its operation, focus, and intent (Harrison, 1997).…”

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McKinesiology

Andrews¹,

Silk²,

Francombe³

et al. 2013

Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies

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Within this paper, we address how kinesiology-in a similar fashion to other disciplinary enterprises-has become enmeshed with the dictates of the market, privatization, efficiency, flexibility, and the accelerated rationalization of society, associated with the advent of late capitalism. Hence, we outline how these market considerations implicitly and explicitly privilege centrally controlled, efficiency oriented, rationally predictable, and empirically calculable ways of knowing, and of knowledge generation (Ritzer, 2004). We propose that these processes not only further wed kinesiology, the University, and implicated subjects (students as well as Professors) to the logics of the capital, but also place such concerns over human needs, civic and moral responsibilities, public values and critical contents (Giroux, 2010). These non-rational and incalculable pedagogical outcomes are crucial foundations for democracy, political freedom and equality (Brown, 2006), yet are apparently devalued in contemporary kinesiology as in other formations of (higher) education. Pace Ritzer (2006), we thus expose the epistemological McDonaldization evident with kinesiology, which we argue has resulted in a field stymied by what elsewhere has been described as its "inconvenient truth" (Andrews, 2008); namely, the intellectually and humanity limiting scientific doxa apparent and embodied within the constitution of kinesiological departments, curricular, journals, and, indeed, the kinesiology academy itself.

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Keynes on Post-Scarcity Society

Cited by 10 publications

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Kinesiology'sInconvenient Truthand the Physical Cultural Studies Imperative

Kinesiology'sInconvenient Truthand the Physical Cultural Studies Imperative

Abundance and Equality

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