Readings Selection
Matthew Cropp
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A thread to coordinate the selection of readings!
Poll Created Thu 18 Jan 2018 3:16AM
Add at least one reading suggestion to the spreadsheet Closed Thu 25 Jan 2018 3:03AM
Please check 'yes' when you've added at least one book to the spreadsheet! Once we have the initial list, we'll initiate the first readings selection process...
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5 of 10 people have voted (50%)
Matthew Cropp Mon 29 Jan 2018 3:31AM
Coooooooool! I had no idea you could do that in a spreadsheet! Since the check poll has closed, I would say go ahead with the poll ASAP! Please include a link to the spreadsheet on the poll and highlight the selected books so people can find the relevant ones easily. I dehighlight and rehighlight each month for my hackerspace club...
Michele Kipiel Mon 29 Jan 2018 9:53AM
Cool stuff! How do we pick the "finalists" though? They all are very interesting :)
Erik Moeller Tue 30 Jan 2018 1:21AM
I've used the RNG to pick five books from the spreadsheet, and I suggest we each pick our top 3 among those (I narrowed it to 3 so we have to make an additional tradeoff choice beyond the ranking, but I figure we'll iterate on the voting process as we go).
This is my first Lomio vote so please let me know if I messed anything up :)
Poll Created Tue 30 Jan 2018 1:17AM
What should be the first book for the reading group? Closed Mon 5 Feb 2018 3:03AM
These proposals were randomly chosen from the suggestions spreadsheet. See the spreadsheet for details about each book:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZvZ_MLq1dAVBCY7-e9Iylg-qxWYqkcptjvOnkyOTeTA/edit#gid=0
Results
| Results | Option | Rank | % of points | Points | Mean | ||
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Derek Wall: Elinor Ostrom's Rules for Radicals. Cooperative Alternatives beyond Markets and States (2017) | 1 | 30.0% | 18 | 2.3 | ||
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E.G.Nadeau & Luc Nadeau: The Cooperative Society (2016) | 2 | 25.0% | 15 | 1.9 | ||
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Michael Lewis & Patrick Conaty: The Resilience Imperative: Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-State Economy (2012) | 3 | 21.7% | 13 | 1.6 | ||
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Ajamu Nangwaya & Kali Akuno: Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi (2017) | 4 | 16.7% | 10 | 2.5 | ||
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Michael Braungart & William McDonough: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things | 5 | 6.7% | 4 | 2.0 | ||
| Undecided | 0% | 0 | 0 |
10 of 22 people have voted (45%)
Matt Noyes Tue 30 Jan 2018 1:22AM
Great -- thanks for doing this!
-Matt
Erik Moeller Sat 3 Feb 2018 9:10PM
Just a reminder that the poll closes tomorrow so if you haven't already, please get your votes in - thanks :)
Poll Created Mon 12 Mar 2018 2:02PM
Reading Selection: 2nd Book Closed Sun 18 Mar 2018 1:02PM
A random selection of books from the shared spreadsheet. Please select your top 3 to determine which one we'll read for our second reading group selection.
You can find more details about each book in the spreadsheet (this months candidates are highlighted in yellow): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZvZ_MLq1dAVBCY7-e9Iylg-qxWYqkcptjvOnkyOTeTA/edit#gid=0
Results
| Results | Option | Rank | % of points | Points | Mean | ||
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Ajamu Nangwaya, Kali Akuno: Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi | 1 | 31.7% | 19 | 2.7 | ||
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E.G.Nadeau & Luc Nadeau: The Cooperative Society | 2 | 23.3% | 14 | 1.6 | ||
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George Cheney: Values at Work Employee Participation Meets Market Pressure at Mondragon | 3 | 16.7% | 10 | 2.0 | ||
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Jess Gilbert: Planning Democracy | 4 | 15.0% | 9 | 1.8 | ||
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Jaroslav Vanek: Self Management: Economic Liberation of Man | 5 | 13.3% | 8 | 2.0 | ||
| Undecided | 0% | 0 | 0 |
10 of 32 people have voted (31%)
Poll Created Sun 22 Apr 2018 10:04PM
Reading Selection 3rd Book Closed Sun 29 Apr 2018 10:02PM
The good news is we have chosen our next reading: Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism.
The bad news is I was the person who put that on the list, meaning that I am facilitating twice in a row -- if anyone would rather facilitate this one, feel free. ;-)
Rank your choices.
Results
| Results | Option | Rank | % of points | Points | Mean | ||
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Values at Work Employee Participation Meets Market Pressure at Mondragon | 1 | 19.7% | 13 | 2.6 | ||
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Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism. A New Vision for the Future Of Work and a Fairer Internet. | 2 | 19.7% | 13 | 2.2 | ||
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Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women's Liberation in the Syrian Kurdistan | 3 | 18.2% | 12 | 2.0 | ||
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The Resilience Imperative: Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-State Economy | 4 | 15.2% | 10 | 1.7 | ||
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Platform Capitalism | 5 | 9.1% | 6 | 2.0 | ||
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Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future | 6 | 9.1% | 6 | 2.0 | ||
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The Conquest of Bread | 7 | 6.1% | 4 | 2.0 | ||
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things | 8 | 3.0% | 2 | 1.0 | ||
| Undecided | 0% | 0 | 0 |
11 of 37 people have voted (29%)
Poll Created Tue 1 May 2018 3:22PM
Add a book to the reading list! Closed Tue 8 May 2018 3:02PM
Let's keep building the reading list! Check 'yes' on this poll if you've added at least one new book to the readings spreadsheet
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Yes | 4 |
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No | 1 |
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Undecided | 32 |
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5 of 37 people have voted (13%)
Michel Alexandre Salim
Mon 7 May 2018 7:07PM
I feel like I am not familiar enough with the field to suggest books yet, but looking forward to read the next book selection
Michele Kipiel Sun 8 Jul 2018 10:54AM
Hi all,
sorry for letting the past week fly by without any updates. I am now selecting the books using https://www.random.org/ to randomly select the 8 books that will be put to the votes. Poll coming soon! :)
mike_hales Sun 8 Jul 2018 4:24PM
@michelekipiel Could you add this book to the master list, out of which you do random selections:
- Capra & Mattei (2015), The ecology of law - Toward a legal system in tune with nature and community, Berrett-Koehler.
Toward a law framework for post-capitalism.
emi do Sun 8 Jul 2018 6:03PM
Hi @mikeh8 , the reading selection spreadsheet can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZvZ_MLq1dAVBCY7-e9Iylg-qxWYqkcptjvOnkyOTeTA/edit?usp=sharing.
There are also descriptions for the books there as well which helps with selection.
mike_hales Sun 8 Jul 2018 6:44PM
Thanks Emi. I did discover the spreadsheet after I’d posted my query. Unfortunately, I don’t use resources that require a Google ID.
Michele Kipiel Mon 9 Jul 2018 6:43AM
Hi @mikeh8, I added that book personally as soon as the list was created :) Such a great read!
Matt Noyes Mon 9 Jul 2018 3:06PM
If there are no objections, I can convert the spreadsheet to an Ethercalc document...
Michele Kipiel Tue 10 Jul 2018 5:27PM
Works for me, let's wait for some more feedback though :)
Poll Created Sun 8 Jul 2018 11:02AM
Reading selection - Fourth book Closed Sun 15 Jul 2018 12:02PM
And the winner is... "Values at Work Employee Participation Meets Market Pressure at Mondragon" by G. Cheney!
Let the reading begin :)
As usual, I I will set up a poll in the coming days to pick a date for the discussion call next month.
Let's choose the next book we want to read!
The book descriptions can be found on this spreadsheet.
Results
| Results | Option | Rank | % of points | Points | Mean | ||
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The Cooperative Society - E.G. Nadeau & L. Nadeau | 1 | 19.0% | 41 | 6.8 | ||
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Values at Work Employee Participation Meets Market Pressure at Mondragon - G. Cheney | 2 | 19.0% | 41 | 6.8 | ||
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Capital as Power: A Study of Order and Creorder - J. Nitzan & S. Bichler | 3 | 13.9% | 30 | 5.0 | ||
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We the People: Connecting to a Deeper Democracy - J. Buck Jr & S. Villines | 4 | 13.0% | 28 | 4.7 | ||
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Self Management: Economic Liberation of Man - J. Vanek | 5 | 10.2% | 22 | 3.7 | ||
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Property and Contract in Economics: The Case for Economic Democracy - D. Ellerman | 6 | 9.3% | 20 | 3.3 | ||
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Rules for Radicals: A Progmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals - S. Alinsky | 7 | 8.8% | 19 | 3.2 | ||
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The Conquest of Bread - P. Kropotkin | 8 | 6.9% | 15 | 2.5 | ||
| Undecided | 0% | 0 | 0 |
6 of 41 people have voted (14%)
mike_hales Sun 8 Jul 2018 2:30PM
@michelekipiel I'd much rather be doing a dot-vote on this, since there are only one or two books I'm keen to read. Sorting eight into a hierarchy is more work than I feel like giving to the remainder. And might seem to support them.
Matthew Cropp Sun 8 Jul 2018 7:18PM
Dot voting on this type of decision doesn't work well (tried it in a different reading group, and we decided ranked choice works better), but what I prefer is to have it set to only rank the top four of the eight. The flow of the approved decision making process is in the description of the sub-group for reference.
Also, @michelekipiel, I'm going to edit the description of the poll to embed the link to the spreadsheet so folks can easily access the book descriptions.
Michele Kipiel Mon 9 Jul 2018 6:44AM
Thanks!
Matthew Cropp Mon 16 Jul 2018 10:08PM
Really excited to read this one! @mattnoyes selections seem to be good ones... ;)
Matt Noyes Mon 16 Jul 2018 10:11PM
You're too kind. Actually, this time I am confident we can set up a follow-up chat with George Cheney.
Caitlin Waddick, @[email protected] Tue 31 Jul 2018 1:23PM
The original publication date is 1999. The Updated Edition is 2002. My library system has the original. Amazon.com sells the Updated Edition for $25. I wonder what’s in the update.
[deactivated account] Mon 6 Aug 2018 5:06PM
I just requested this via inter-library loan, so if it arrives in time to read, I'll be excited to join the discussion.
Erik Moeller · Mon 29 Jan 2018 12:13AM
Okay, I think we're almost ready to get started. I've added a random book selector to the spreadsheet, here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZvZ_MLq1dAVBCY7-e9Iylg-qxWYqkcptjvOnkyOTeTA/edit#gid=570362544
Feel free to tweak it. If that works for folks, in the next few days, I'll run it to generate options for a poll. So please get your suggestions into the "Proposed Books" section now if you haven't already :-)