What Is a Migrant Worth?
By Elsie Roderiques, Common Dreams
The root cause of our social and environmental challenges is neoliberalism and the fetish of the market, which values profit over people and sees nature simply as a commodity.
Tag: commodification
To Feed or to Profit? To Eat or to Consume?
By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth
We can no longer let the distribution method - the market - dictate how we farm and how we eat. We need to develop new tools and institutions in order to cater for the many functions of food and farming. A process of decommodification should be at the core of the alternative food movement.
In Defense of the Commons
By Shalmali Guttal, Mary Ann Manahan, Commons Transition
This article identifies some of the threats to the commons and highlights the resistance of local people.
On the Commodification of Human Discovery
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
Free Knowledge is a welcome survey of alarming impacts of IP law and also valuable introduction to some salutary alternatives.