Party Time?

By Michel Bauwens, The Great Transition

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.”

Book of the Day: The Corruption of Capitalism, by Guy Standing

By Kevin Carson, P2P Foundation

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

By David Bollier, David Bollier blog

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

By Kevin Flanaghan, P2P Foundation

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

By Michel Bauwens, P2P Foundation

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.