Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future
During the early decades of the century, the market will lose its magic.
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Terre de Liens: Experiencing and Managing Farmland as Commons
In this small, pastoral village of the French Pre-Alps, establishing young farmers is an act of will.
Disrupting Capitalist Democracy
This article analyses how platform businesses disrupt industries and suggests how emerging technologies and ownership models are ushering in a fundamentally new, truly democratic economy.
The Future of Work
Most of us are so busy playing this game, we hardly realise that we must step away to play a different game altogether.
A Roof, a Skill, a Market: The Multiple Dimensions of Scale
The Nubian Vault Association has evolved a quite different approach: the long-term, muti-dimensional cultivation of living local economies based on three kinds of value: a roof, a skill, and a market.
The Case for “Disruptive Normality”
How should we prevent the social potential of sharing practices from being neutralized by the power of the neoliberal ideas and economy?
Mexico’s Indigenous Groups Start Telecom Co-op after Being Refused Service
The licenses enable members of the Mixe, Mixteco, and Zapoteco communities to form their own cooperatively-owned mobile cellular telephone network allowing 356 municipalities in the states of Chiapas, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Puebla, and Veracruz access to mobile services and the Internet.
The Next Digital Economy: Why Refusing to Grow is Better Business
This is an interview I did with myself about my book – trying to explain what matters about it, as briefly as possible.
The Big Potential of Little Free Libraries
A free community book exchange launches the Little Free Library movement—with 40,000 locations in 70 countries worldwide.
For Hallowe’en This Year, I’m Dressing as the Economy
As my friend David Fleming once wrote, conventional economics ‘puts the grim into reality.’
The Meaning of Brexit: It’s the Movement
And so there is another meaning, that Brexit represents both an explicit and implicit, (and perhaps, ironic,) repudiation of globalisation and neoliberalism.
Patterns of Commoning
Just like farmers, we cannot really know how big and copious the harvest will be, or when exactly it will come. But we keep seeding to help make the commons visible at different levels…
