Productive Economy, Contributory Economy

Genevieve Bouche is a member of Fabrique du Futur and specializes in the impact of the digital on social and economic life. She was introduced to the concept of cybernetic futurology by the commissaires au plan working under Charles de Gaulle. Her pioneering research has focused notably on exchange platforms, networks and cryptocurrencies

• Foreword by Marc Luyckx Ghisi xiForeword by Éric Seulliet xvPreface xviiPart 1 The Driving Facts of Change 1Introduction to Part 1 3Chapter 1 Adapt or Dare? 51.1 Accepting to evolve 51.1.1 For a shared Europe 51.1.2 For a real respect of Gaia’s internal rules 61.1.3 Saving the planet, jobs or our civilization? 81.1.4 Going through “a good war”? 101.1.5 Expanding our field of certainty 111.2 Change seen from afar to better understand it 131.2.1 Being an actor in our own novel 131.2.2 The cybernetic futurology approach 141.2.3 The temporality of civilizations 161.3 Known risks of our model 191.3.1 No tolerance thresholds 191.3.2 A specific model for each geopolitical zone 211.3.3 From the Anthropocene to the symbiotic, an opportunity for Europe 231.3.4 Solzhenitsyn syndrome 241.4 Better than a revolution 28Chapter 2 Our Heritage of Experience Tested by New Knowledge 312.1 The common good as a new source of prosperity 312.1.1 “Employment and GDP”: words of the 21st century 322.1.2 An inclusive model by necessity 332.1.3 On the 21st floor, take the cultural elevator 342.1.4 Care of our idiom/logobiota 352.1.5 The economy between cooperation and competitiveness 392.1.6 The consequences of this development 422.1.7 Breaking out of the dictatorship of short term 522.2 Liberating values 532.2.1 No longer possessing, but disposing 532.2.2 From consumerism to the search for cooperation 562.2.3 Complementarity, the wealth of the community 582.2.4 Educating for cooperation 592.2.5 Organization: from the pyramid to the organic structure 652.3 Respect for life course 682.3.1 The continuity of love and knowledge 682.3.2 The times of life from the 20th to the 21st centuries 69Chapter 3 The Change of Era Beyond Our Will! 733.1 This new era: symbiotic or chaotic? 733.1.1 Overcoming the right/left duality 733.1.2 Revisiting the institutions 743.1.3 The energy of revolt 763.1.4 The time of think tanks 783.1.5 Towards male/female complementarity 793.1.6 Learning transparency in a fuzzy universe 803.2 AI, the eye of Cain and democratic benevolence 803.3 Sovereignty in the 21st century 823.3.1 The layers of power 823.3.2 Power through data 83Chapter 4 The Traces of Our Future Inscribed in Our Past 854.1 Controlling your destiny 854.1.1 The invention of the image 854.1.2 Smart, but fragile 854.1.3 Not above the laws of nature 874.2 Creative and responsible 884.2.1 The homeostasis of our democracy 884.2.2 Europe: hierarchical with its kings, but organic with its communities 904.2.3 Towards a cooperative democracy 914.2.4 No more ideology 934.2.5 Escaping the clutches of massive influence 944.2.6 Neither colonizer nor colonized, only responsible and competitive 984.3 World view and transmission of knowledge 994.4 Europe, a civilization in reconstruction? 1004.4.1 At the forefront of the need for renewal 1004.4.2 Taking into account social creatives 1024.4.3 Preparing for change with the right tools 1094.4.4 The dangers of a collapse of the West 1114.5 More technology, therefore more humanity 1154.5.1 Towards a new form of governance 1154.5.2 Making society now 1164.5.3 The end of one model, the beginning of another 1184.5.4 No global without local 1194.5.5 Demography, a taboo subject 1244.6 Digital technology, a weapon but also a tool 1294.6.1 Digitized financial warfare 1294.6.2 Influencer wars 1314.7 Workaholics forever? 1334.7.1 Before sedentarization: to each his own tribe 1334.7.2 Since sedentarization: a place for submission 1334.8 Sedentarization, spiritual at first 134Chapter 5 “To Make Society” Therefore “To Exchange” 1375.1 Exchanges and specializations 1375.1.1 The end of the fear of missing out? 1375.1.2 Strengths and weaknesses of the concept of ownership 1395.1.3 Beginning and end of patriarchy? 1425.1.4 Exchanging to prosper 1425.2 Financial instruments over time 1435.2.1 Symbols to record exchanges 1435.2.2 Money and financiers 1445.2.3 Church/State and social classes 1475.2.4 End of social classes? 148Part 2 Avenues to be Explored 149Introduction to Part 2 151Chapter 6 The Inevitable Reworking of the Social Pact 1536.1 The world of work in revolution 1536.1.1 Fewer and better educated citizens 1536.1.2 Collapse of the middle class 1546.2 Occupation/job and skills/talents/knowledge 1596.2.1 Rise of competence 1596.2.2 Disappearance of professions and knowledge strategy 1596.2.3 Emergence of jobs and networks 1606.3 End of the Jules Ferry school of thought 1616.3.1 Certification courses 1626.3.2 Sloping entry and exit from the labor market, an avenue to be explored 1636.3.3 Inspirational heroes 1636.3.4 Regulated professions with regulated missions 163Chapter 7 New Reward Tools 1657.1 The end of liberalist doxa in favor of reciprocity 1657.2 Shifting the focus between private property and the commons 1667.2.1 Dependence on the productive and the common good 1667.2.2 The dual economy: productive and contributory 1677.2.3 Basic income: yes, but… 169Chapter 8 Smart Currencies 1738.1 Institutional money and contributory money 1738.2 Monetary biodiversity 1758.2.1 Currency diversity as a source of stability 1758.2.2 Incentive money: recurrent and melting 1778.2.3 Already smart currencies 1788.3 Moving to the sandbox 1798.3.1 Responding to the collapse of the middle class 1798.3.2 Objectives of the multicurrency experiments 1818.3.3 Urgency? 1818.4 Do not deny the history of our currency 1828.4.1 From melting money to mortgage credit 1828.4.2 Central banks 1858.4.3 The financing of industry 1868.4.4 Conquering finance 1888.4.5 End of a certain finance 1918.4.6 Pressure, depression, renewal 1928.4.7 The dangers of “helicopter currencies” 193Chapter 9 The New Priorities 1959.1 Return of feminine values 1959.2 A different relationship to innovation 1969.3 Preparing for the “aftermath” of transnational corporations 1989.4 Going digital 0.0 1999.5 Data as important as money 2009.6 A renewed idea of liberalism 201Chapter 10 Transition Without Chaos? 20710.1 More complicated than sedentarization 20710.2 A global but differentiated shift 20810.2.1 Alternately at the forefront of human history 20810.2.2 Europe at the forefront of the societal shift 20810.3 Productive-contributory: Siamese economies 20910.3.1 Civilization’s stampede 20910.3.2 From the “middle” to the “active” class 21010.3.3 Towards higher levels of satisfaction 21210.3.4 Economy at the service of people and the common good 21410.3.5 Democratic coordination 21510.4 Tasks dedicated to the common good 21710.4.1 The different contributory tasks 21710.4.2 Empathic tasks 22610.4.3 Status of contributory and empathic tasks 23010.4.4 All citizens and actors of the economic and social life 231Chapter 11 No Societal Transformation Without Digital Sovereignty 23311.1 Protecting land, but also souls and knowledge 23311.2 The European opportunity 23411.3 Data as important as money 23511.4 The European digital age of the 21st century 23611.4.1 A place for Rina 23611.4.2 Platforms and the platform State 23711.4.3 The time of digital castles 24311.4.4 Providing the means 243Conclusion 245References 255Index 259