Comments on: C-H-A-O-S and the Open Value Chain

By: large cooking pot

large cooking pot — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:36:00 +0000

I’m so love this blog, already bookmarked it! Thanks.

By: Lorena Jaume

Lorena Jaume — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:11:00 +0000

Amazing how the thoughts of Olson and predominantly Coase still lurk in so many minds. Entries like this one should be posted every day to remind us of the contrary!
Luckily, there are other currents of thought: like the research of Margaret Gilbert on collective intentionality and her economic pendant Elinor Ostrom. Giving her the Nobel Prize was the first step on acknowledging that human beings are more than a “homo oeconomicus”.
The value network analysis method would be a way to operationalise both non tangible values and incentives encomprised in Gilbert’s and Ostrom’s assumptions and to integrate them in economic strategies (and that is increasingly happening) and, why not, also in political strategies (and that still hasn’t happened yet).

By: Sofia Elizondo

Sofia Elizondo — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:42:00 +0000

Philipp, love the post. Frameworks like C-H-A-O-S’s are simply tools to understand phenomena around us. Indeed, they are very useful to make sense of different pieces and to communicate to each other about them. But only because one has a hammer, does not mean that all things are nails. I second your call to learn from what we see and create new tools for addressing new phenomena. Like Wittgenstein once quipped: Do not think, but look.