The Wealth of the Commons: A World Beyond Market and StateWe are poised between an old world that no longer works and a new one struggling to be born. Surrounded by centralized hierarchies on the one hand and predatory markets on the other, people around the world are searching for alternatives. The Wealth of the Commons explains how millions of commoners have organized to defend their forests and fisheries, reinvent local food systems, organize productive online communities, reclaim public spaces, improve environmental stewardship and re-imagine the very meaning of "progress" and governance. In short, how they've built their commons. In 73 timely essays by a remarkable international roster of activists, academics and project leaders, this book chronicles ongoing struggles against the private commoditization of shared resources - often known as market enclosures - while documenting the immense generative power of the commons. The Wealth of the Commons is about history, political change, public policy and cultural transformation on a global scale - but most of all, it's about individual commoners taking charge of their lives and their endangered resources. "This fine collection makes clear that the idea of the Commons is fully international, and increasingly fully worked-out. If you find yourself wondering what Occupy wants, or if some other world is possible, this pragmatic, down-to-earth, and unsentimental book will provide many of the answers." - Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and The Durable Future |
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Contents
Shorthand Comparsion ofTheir Core Beliefs First Thoughts for a Phenomenology of | |
Rethinking theSocial WelfareStateinLight ofthe Commons | |
Commons | |
AShort Sketch The Abundance ofthe Commons? PART | |
Rights | |
A NeverEnding Story | |
Gardening as a Corrective for Homo Economicus | |
SharingOurCommon | |
Towards a ButterflySociety Shared SpaceASpace Sharedisa Space Doubled Transition Towns Initiatives of Transformation | |
A Brazilian Experience withthe Commons andIts Relationship withtheState Capable Leadership Institutional Skills | |
TheCodeis the Seedof | |
Linz AustriaBenefited from Committing to | |
Commons | |
Realities | |
The Case | |
Commons | |
Innovation Commons | |
Structure Rights inImmaterial Commons PART FIVE | |
Kept WithinStrict Boundaries | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Wealth of the Commons: A World Beyond Market and State |
| Editors | David Bollier, Silke Helfrich |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Levellers Press, 2014 |
| ISBN | 1937146146, 9781937146146 |
| Length | 462 pages |
| Subjects | › Political Science / Globalization Political Science / Political Economy |
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