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Erik Olin Wright on models for a Post-Capitalist Unconditional Basic Income | P2P Foundation

Sociologist Erik Olin Wright explains why a basic income would not be a “disincentive” to work (unlike means-tested anti-poverty programs).
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Policies for Commons Collaborative Economies at the European level | P2P Foundation

A series of proposals and more than 120 policy recommendations for governments, ending in a joint statement of public policies for the collaborative economy
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Yanis Varoufakis on the death of the 20th Century's Social Contract, and What is Next | P2P Foundation

Brilliant explanation of why the social insurance model of the 20th century is dying and why the basic income is the unavoidable alternative.
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Procomuns Plenary 4: Commons and the City | P2P Foundation

Video panel exploring the Commons in the city and internationally. Featuring Christian Iaione, Eloísa Piñeiro Orge, George Dafermos and Joan Subirats.
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On the Necessity of Transforming the Fictitious Commodities into Commons (1): Land | P2P Foundation

A series of 3 excerpts on commonifying the fictitious commodities identified by Karl Polany, i.e. land, money and labor, from an essay by Gary Flomenhoft.
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COMMONS TRANSITION FOOD AND AGRICULTURE P2P ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM P2P PUBLIC POLICY P2P SOCIETY AND POLITICS

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David Bollier: It’s Time to Start a Chamber of Commons | P2P Foundation

David Bollier: It’s Time to Start a Chamber of Commons | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Republished from David Bollier (the original has links): “Scholar of networked behavior David Ronfeldt has proposed an idea whose time may have arrived: let’s create a new federated network of commons enterprises called the “Chamber of Commons.” The term is a wonderful wordplay on the more familiar group, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the notoriously... Continue reading →
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From basic income to social dividend: sharing the value of common resources | P2P Foundation

It’s time to examine and broaden the debate on how to fund a universal basic income
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COMMONS TRANSITION ETHICAL ECONOMY FEATURED ESSAY OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS P2P PUBLIC POLICY P2P SOCIETY AND POLITICS SHARINGcommons tr

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Video: Fred Harrison on Why Land Value Taxation would be fairer than progressive income taxes | P2P Foundation

During boom years, it takes land owners only three years to recuperate a lifetime of taxes through the rising land values.
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Factual details about the upcoming basic income experiment in Finland | P2P Foundation

"In a recent survey carried out by Kela, nearly 70% of respondents support the idea of a universal basic income"
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How Waze is endangering the traffic commons | P2P Foundation

Waze has built a real time layer of data and commands over our current traffic infrastructure, but this layer is owned and operated by a for-profit company
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Money as a Commons requires a Local Standard of Value | P2P Foundation

Money as a Commons requires a Local Standard of Value | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
“I cannot see how money can become democratic unless its value is determined independently of the financial system just as standards of weights and measures are determined independently of those that use them as a common good.” An interesting argument by Shann Turnbull: (via email) “I cannot see how money can become democratic unless its …
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Video: Fred Harrison on Why Land Value Taxation would be fairer than progressive income taxes | P2P Foundation

Video: Fred Harrison on Why Land Value Taxation would be fairer than progressive income taxes | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
During boom years, it takes land owners only three years to recuperate a lifetime of taxes through the rising land values. A brilliant explanation by Fred Harrison. Watch the video here:
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Nine Key Political Propositions About How To Build the Common | P2P Foundation

Nine Key Political Propositions About How To Build the Common | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
This is excerpted from the second part of an in-depth review of the book, Commun, by Martin O’Shaughnessy. Here, first in summary, are the nine propositions: * Proposition 1: it is necessary to construct a politics of the common: * Proposition 2: we must mobilise rights of use to challenge property rights. * Proposition 3: …
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Towards a 'General Political License' to regulate the relations of the commons with the political world | P2P Foundation

The General Political License would allow policy makers to have the support of commons and commoners, subject to clear conditions of reciprocity.
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Book of the Day: How Seoul became a leading sharing city | P2P Foundation

Sharing is not an opposite of ownership nor a panacea. But we can make use of existing resources rather than create everything we need.
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BUILDING THE OPEN SOURCE CIRCULAR ECONOMY COMMONS COMMONS TRANSITION FEATURED BOOK P2P ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM P2P COLLABORATION P2P LEGAL DEV. P2P PUBLIC POLICY P2P SOCIETY AND POLITICS SHARING

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Erik Olin Wright on the Role of the State, the Market and Civil Society | P2P Foundation

Erik Olin Wright, from a 2007 text in ‘Compass Points’: “Capitalism would be an unreproducible and chaotic social order if the state played the minimalist role specified in the libertarian fantasy, but it would also, as Polanyi argued, function much more erratically if civil society was absorbed into the economy as a fully commodified and... Continue reading →
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COMMONS TRANSITION P2P GOVERNANCE P2P HIERARCHY THEORY P2P PUBLIC POLICY P2P THEORYcomm

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Labour Shadow Chancellor pledges to double the co-operative economy | Co-operatives UK Newsroom

Labour Shadow Chancellor pledges to double the co-operative economy | Co-operatives UK Newsroom | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Co-operatives UK has welcomed the announcement (Wednesday 20 April) by the Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell, that the Lab
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Transition Proposals Towards a Commons-Oriented Economy and Society | P2P Foundation

Transition Proposals Towards a Commons-Oriented Economy and Society | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
In the context of the Ecuadorian transition project towards a open commons-based knowledge society, see Floksociety.org, and to complement the prior analysis of three competing economic models in the age of peer production, I have formulated some transition proposals, on how to get from Phase 2, emerging peer production in the context of the dominance... Continue reading →
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The Machine Brain vs Garden Brain View of Economics | P2P Foundation

Ken Webster focuses on a necessarily 'wholistic' or 'integrative' understanding of the circular economy characterized by the Garden Brain.
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Game over for Sanders? It needn't be | P2P Foundation

As his candidancy falters, where can that rapturous energy be channelled? Into building an economy that serves ordinary people, and excludes the 1%

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Paul Segal on the Idea of the Resource Dividend | P2P Foundation

Those who make more extensive use of our planet’s [limited natural] resources should compensate those who, involuntarily, use very little.
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Money as a Commons requires a Local Standard of Value | P2P Foundation

Money as a Commons requires a Local Standard of Value | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
I cannot see how money can become democratic unless its value is determined independently of the financial system
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How Waze is endangering the traffic commons | P2P Foundation

How Waze is endangering the traffic commons | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

“We run a real risk of creating a new kind of regulatory capture?—?

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Policy & FLOSS for the Commons - upcoming P2Pvalue Event in Barcelona | P2P Foundation

Policy & FLOSS for the Commons - upcoming P2Pvalue Event in Barcelona | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
FLOSS4P2P: Commons Collaborative Economies: Policies, Technologies and City for the People. Barcelona, March 2016
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Guy Standing on Why the Future Needs a Basic Guaranteed Income | P2P Foundation

Guy Standing on Why the Future Needs a Basic Guaranteed Income | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Guy Standing focuses here on the research and experiments which show basic income guarantees are working where they have been tried. The first 3.50 minutes are a dutch-language introduction to the speaker. Watch the video here:
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