Party Time?
Many of the exploding number of local projects are actually not local, but transnational in nature: as Enzio Manzini called them, they are “Small, Local, Open, Connected.”
p2p relationships
Book of the Day: The Corruption of Capitalism, by Guy Standing
Rather than a “free market,” the neoliberal global economy praised as “free trade” by policy wonks is actually “a global framework of institutions and regulations that enable elites to maximise their rental income.” Standing says 31% of Western corporate profits today, as opposed to 17% in 1999, are in industries where profits are rents on artificial scarcities…
Re-imagining Value: Insights from the Care Economy, Commons, Cyberspace and Nature
What is “value” and how shall we protect it? It’s a simple question for which we don’t have a satisfactory answer. For conventional economists and politicians, the answer is simple: value is essentially the same as price.
Reflections on the Commons Space at the World Social Forum in Montreal 2016
For many months I’ve intended to write an article on the Commons Space at the World Social Forum (WSF) which took place in Montreal in August of 2016.
The Third Revolution
My thesis is that all these things that we are describing are the seed of a new political economy, of a new system of civilization.