I don't think we're going to agree on the complexity issue. I think that because there are more things n an ecology that the complexity of such a system is several orders of magnitude more than a human economy, particularly since human economies are part of an have an impact on ecologies.
As for examples of other economic systems, Wikipedia has a handy list (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_system). I would point you to a few in particular, like a subsistence economy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsistence_economy), the system that was most common in human history; participatory economy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_economics), which is often touted as an alternative to capitalist inequality and communist authoritarianism by making economic decisions communal and democratic; and virtual economies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_economy), which are currently a huge growth market, springing out of the proliferation of online gaming, like World of Warcraft's multi-million dollar gold farming trade.
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Date: 2010-07-08 05:15 pm (UTC)As for examples of other economic systems, Wikipedia has a handy list (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_system). I would point you to a few in particular, like a subsistence economy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsistence_economy), the system that was most common in human history; participatory economy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_economics), which is often touted as an alternative to capitalist inequality and communist authoritarianism by making economic decisions communal and democratic; and virtual economies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_economy), which are currently a huge growth market, springing out of the proliferation of online gaming, like World of Warcraft's multi-million dollar gold farming trade.