These are all choices that a community or area can make during their annual planning easily, and then follow how well resources match up with the initial plans and whether different goods and services are better suited for moneyless purchasing (eg. free public service or good) or per consumption counted (eg. purchased with money) .
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The Union of Radical Political Economics is hosting a session on crypto currencies at the upcoming Annual Meetings of the American Association of Allied Social Sciences, a.k.a. the ASSAs, to be held in Boston on January 7-9 2022. My guess is that at least some of the four presentations made there will be of considerable interest to any of you interested in crypto currencies.
Here is the url I believe that will take you to a description of the session. And I believe if you click on the abstracts you will be able to see what each speaker will talk about.
American Economic Association,
The ASSAs have just announced that all sessions will be āvirtualā in January 2020 for covid reasons. Iām not sure what that means for getting access to the presentations themselves when they take place. You may have to pay to register for the conference even though it is virtual, which would limit access to viewing the talks when they take place. Or maybe not. However, I believe that the talks will at some point become available on the ASSA 2022 program website after the fact. I also bet if you email any presenter and ask him or her to email you their presentation once they have prepared it, they will probably do so. I am presenting in a different session on how a participatory economy might participate in international trade and investment to its benefit without violating its core principles, and I have already emailed my talk to people who emailed me asking about it.
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I realize Iām just now replying to this after over two years, but I just want to say how appreciative I am that youāre mentioning the opportunity we have to take advantage of advances in technology and wiser distributions of resources (no more artificial scarcity) to free ourselves to the fullest extent possible from the limitations of scarcity.
I donāt doubt that after a transition away from capitalism, after weāve had a chance to take a step back and get a feel for what we can really do with our resources as a society, weāll see that many goods and services are in much greater abundance than they were under capitalism. Even if some kind of currency-based accounting is necessary for some goods, for others it may not be, especially if we explore potentials offered by models like library socialism. As automation advances and we move away from rampant consumerism and more towards a circular economy, we will find ourselves with the potential to have more with less work, and any post-capitalist vision needs to account for and embrace this potential.
I absolutely see Parecon as among the most viable visions for what could come after capitalism and what a post-capitalist society could look like, but at the same time it needs to be adapted to allow for the gradual transition to āpost-post-capitalismā (which it is definitely among the most well-suited models to facilitate this transition as it becomes possible). This is a topic that I feel is very important and intellectually fascinating and that not enough people on this forum or on the Left in general are talking about, so I would like to thank you for bringing it up! 
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