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Photo credit: Sebastiaan ter Burg via Foter.com / CC BY. Article cross-posted from Bollier.org. 
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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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“What makes political systems cross over the threshold into parameter transformations? Some breakpoints occur when a technological development enables individuals to engage in previously unimagined activities and collectivities to pursue previously inconceivable policy goals…. a turning point that occurs when the resources or practices of a system can no longer cope with one more increment... Continue reading →
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As used by right-wing apologists for “free market capitalism” capitalism is the source of everything good in the world, although it's never existed.
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Once in a while, we are confronted by initiatives which elicit contrary feelings, especially if they come from what you consider as ‘your own side’.
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An example of this would be my perplexity towards encountering CodeSolid and their proposal for Employee-Owned Source Code, originating as it does from a cooperative, which Nathan Schneider considers to be a platform cooperative. As he writes about them in a Facebook exchange:
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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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One of the more complicated issues facing most commons is how to raise capital in the face of dominant systems of finance hostile to commoning.
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From an in-depth conversation of Robin Murray with Jeremy Gilbert and Andrew Goffey for New Formations magazine: (Note from editor Michel Bauwens: please note that Robin here confuses our concept of Netarchical Capitalism with that of anarcho-capitalism or distributed capitalism) Robin Murray: “Platforms are a new kind of economy, in which you can talk about …
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"The commons works best by consensus and, unlike capitalism, does not depend on constant growth." Derek Wall on economics after capitalism.
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Help our friends at the Mutual Aid Network (MAN) build local, resilient, peer to peer economic networks through their crowdfunding campaign.
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* Article: Common Wealth Trusts: Structures of Transition. Peter Barnes. August 2015. Here’s the summary thesis of the article, followed by an extensive excerpted discussion: “Common wealth, properly organized, provides a way to address the two greatest flaws in contemporary capitalism—its relentless destruction of nature and widening of inequality—while still keeping the benefits that markets …
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Can the factors creating a slower growth world find open discussion in time to avoid severe social strife and an Age of Stagnation
jean lievens's insight:
COMMONS TRANSITION ECONOMY AND BUSINESS FEATURED PODCAST P2P ECOLOGY P2P SOCIETY AND POLITICScommons tra
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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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You are invited to participate in this survey conducted by the research teams from the P2Pvalue project, in which the P2P Foundation is a consortium member. In the research project P2PValue we study what we call peer to peer (P2P) communities. With this we mean networks of people who freely collaborate around a common goal,... Continue reading →
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Coming soon: an update Michel Bauwen's 2005 seminal manifesto “P2P and Human Evolution” written by Bauwens and Vasilis Kostakis
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An in-depth explorations of the types of signals needed for a post-capitalist, mutual coordination, economy
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David Bollier's overview of Elinor Ostrom, the Political Scientist Who Debunked Mainstream Economics
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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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The sharing movement is evolving quickly and in many directions. The growth of platform and worker co-ops, increased awareness of the commons, the evolution of coworking, an explosion of tech-enabled sharing services, and more are opening up promising if not challenging frontiers.
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This in turn leads to a third form of socialisation, which we might call ‘civil socialization’.
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We can build a socio-economic community with a sovereign currency without abandoning the Euro
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Community wealth building is a way of strengthening communities by supporting democratic ownership and control of local businesses. This means more opportunity, inclusion and prosperity for the many, not just the few. This is aligned with Shareable's vision for Sharing Cities and cooperative economies.
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