I & I Economies

Summary

Opening a series, Amahra Spence builds an economics from the Rastafari utterance ‘I & I’, which “refuses the illusion of separateness”. Her working example is pardna, the Caribbean rotating savings club, where “the economic unit is the circle, not the atomised self”. Measures of reciprocity and repair replace GDP, because “we are not separate. We are not singular.”

Rationale

‘I & I’ belongs beside ‘kapwa’, the shared self of Filipino psychology that Getting Deep names. Spence takes it where we only gestured: into how resources move.