Jeff Vail is starting [https://www.jeffvail.net/2009/08/diagonal-economy-1-overview.html] his long-awaited series on the next step for our post-meltdown political economies (see ToC [https://www.jeffvail.net/2009/08/rise-of-diagonal-economy-and-transition.html] for full project description): An excerpt on how this change may come about in the core