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Der vorliegende Text will herausarbeiten, wie sich ökonomische Modellformen zu bestimmten Formen von Computerspielen verhalten. Ausgehend von einer neuartigen interdisziplinären Kooperation zwischen Medienkulturwissenschaft und (heterodoxer) Ökonomik, die in Zukunft zu vertiefen ist, sollen neuartige Perspektiven auf die mögliche Rolle von Computerspielen und -simulationen in gesellschaftlichen Transformationsprozessen entwickelt werden. Basierend auf der systematischen Ausdifferenzierung von Computerspielwelten, vorgeschlagen von Claus Pias, wird erörtert, inwiefern sich Simulation zu einem experimentellen Medium der Kollektivierung gesellschaftlicher Utopien entwickelt, und somit zum Austragungsort politökonomischer Hegemoniekämpfe werden könnte. ; This essay explores how different forms of economic models relate to certain forms of computer games. Starting from a novel and interdisciplinary cooperation between cultural media studies and (heterodox) economics that is intended to be deepened in the future, it develops novel perspectives on the possible role of computer games and simulations in processes of social transformation. Analysing the systematic differentiation of computer game worlds as proposed by Claus Pias, it discusses the extent to which simulation might develop into an experimental medium for collectivizing societal utopias that would thus also become a venue for political-economic hegemonic conflicts.

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This contribution argues that evolutionary economic geography needs to widen its conceptual apparatus in order to engage with the grand challenges of our times. Instead of understanding evolution as a gradual, path-dependent and geographically localized process, the current challenges result from various global political-economic transformations requiring an understanding of evolution as a outcome of variational and transformational change, the incorporation of macro-scale analysis, the augmentation of territorial with relational conceptualizations of space and a focus on historical analysis of political-economic development rather than ahistorical descriptions of regional outcomes of a generalized evolutionary process. We illustrate the potential impact of globalization on the competitive advantage of US metropolitan areas through an analysis of relations of unequal exchange between the USA and the Global South. The estimated value drain constitutes a potential source of revenue for producers in the North that complements the competitive advantages of cities based on superior localized technological performance.

AbstractThis research article presents an agent-based simulation hereinafter called COMMONSIM. It builds on COMMONISM, i.e. a large-scale commons-based vision for a utopian society. In this society, production and distribution of means are not coordinated via markets, exchange and money, or a central polity, but via bottom-up signalling and polycentric networks, i.e. ex ante coordination via needs. Heterogeneous agents care for each other in life groups and produce in different groups care, environmental as well as intermediate and final means to satisfy sensual-vital needs. Productive needs decide on the magnitude of activity in groups for a common interest, e.g. the production of means in a multi-sectoral artificial economy. Agents share cultural traits identified by different behaviours: a propensity for egoism, leisure, environmentalism and productivity. The narrative of this utopian society follows principles of critical psychology and sociology, complexity and evolution, the theory of commons and critical political economy. The article presents the utopia and an agent-based study of it, with emphasis on culture-dependent allocation mechanisms and their social and economic implications for agents and groups.