Instead of a bank, a community?

Adam Arvidsson & Nicolai Peitersen seem to be thinking on a sufficiently large scale as to perhaps be looking around the bend, past the end of capitalism, with some clue as to what might come after - and what they see coming is not supercapitalism. The book, not yet released, is called The Ethical Economy.

There's a fascinating excerpt here, and a pdf of the Introduction here. See also Phil's post at Gifthub.

An excerpt from the excerpt:

Ethics, Finance, Crisis

These might seem like three terms picked at random. However I would like to suggest that beyond its direct, contingent causes, the current financial crisis is a symptom of the emergence of a new economic system, where value is increasingly based on ethical factors, or on ‘life conduct’. I call this an ethical economy: and I will try to explain why, and how it relates to the current crisis.