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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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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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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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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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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.
jean lievens's insight:
COMMONS TRANSITION FOOD AND AGRICULTURE P2P ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM P2P PUBLIC POLICY P2P SOCIETY AND POLITICS
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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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It’s time to examine and broaden the debate on how to fund a universal basic income
jean lievens's insight:
COMMONS TRANSITION ETHICAL ECONOMY FEATURED ESSAY OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS P2P PUBLIC POLICY P2P SOCIETY AND POLITICS SHARINGcommons tr
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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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"In a recent survey carried out by Kela, nearly 70% of respondents support the idea of a universal basic income"
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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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“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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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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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 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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Sharing is not an opposite of ownership nor a panacea. But we can make use of existing resources rather than create everything we need.
jean lievens's insight:
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, 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 →
jean lievens's insight:
COMMONS TRANSITION P2P GOVERNANCE P2P HIERARCHY THEORY P2P PUBLIC POLICY P2P THEORYcomm
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Co-operatives UK has welcomed the announcement (Wednesday 20 April) by the Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell, that the Lab
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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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Ken Webster focuses on a necessarily 'wholistic' or 'integrative' understanding of the circular economy characterized by the Garden Brain.
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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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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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I cannot see how money can become democratic unless its value is determined independently of the financial system
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“We run a real risk of creating a new kind of regulatory capture?—?
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FLOSS4P2P: Commons Collaborative Economies: Policies, Technologies and City for the People. Barcelona, March 2016
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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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