Michel Bauwens Commons Transition Bibliography
Reconstructed upon request by ChatGPT after CommonsTransition.org was taken down.
This is the official list of our publications: 'hand-made': Publications
Michel Bauwens CommonsTransition Corpus (Reconstructed Bibliography)
This page reconstructs the main body of texts authored or co-authored by Michel Bauwens on and around CommonsTransition.org, including essays, reports, and policy documents, with links to surviving versions where available.
There were quite a few mistakes and I tried to remove the maximum number of hallucinations (MB)
1. Core Theoretical Texts (Partner State & Commons Theory)
These texts define the institutional and political logic of a commons-based society.
- Civil Power and the Partner State
- Available: https://commonstransition.org/civil-power-and-the-partner-state/
- Theme: Civil society as autonomous power; state as enabler of commons
- Evolving Towards a Partner State in an Ethical Economy
- Mirror: https://realitysandwich.com/evolving_partner_state_ethical_economy/
- Theme: Transition from welfare/neoliberal state to partner state
- Blueprint for a Partner State
- Available: https://primer.commonstransition.org/2-long-articles/2-1-blueprint-for-a-partner-state
- Theme: Institutional design for commons governance
2. Foundational Commons Transition Synthesis
These works synthesize the overall transition framework.
- Commons Transition and P2P: A Primer
- Co-authors: Vasilis Kostakis, Stacco Troncoso
- Available: https://www.tni.org/en/publication/commons-transition-and-p2p
- Theme: General introduction to commons-based society
- The Commons Transition Primer (Full Library)
- Available: https://primer.commonstransition.org/3-library/
- Theme: Comprehensive conceptual and practical guide
- Value in the Commons Economy
- P2P Wiki reference
- Theme: Open value accounting, generative economy
3. Major Policy Reports and Applied Research
These are the most important and best-preserved outputs.
3.1 Urban and Territorial Commons
- Changing Societies through Urban Commons Transitions
- Co-author: Vasilis Niaros
- Available: https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Changing_Societies_through_Urban_Commons_Transitions
- Theme: Cities as drivers of commons transition
- Commons Transition Plan for the City of Ghent
- Co-author: Yurek Onzia
- Available: https://www.socioeco.org/bdf_fiche-document-5943_en.html
- Theme: Real-world municipal transition strategy
3.2 Political Economy of the Commons
- State Power and Commoning
- PDF: https://primer.commonstransition.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/State-Power-and-Commoning.pdf
- Theme: Relationship between commons and state
- Introduction to Commons Economics
- Status: Various versions across P2P Wiki and essays
- Theme: Productive logic of commons
4. Economic and Value Theory
Texts focusing on post-capitalist economics.
- Open Cooperativism
- Co-authors: Various (incl. Vasilis Kostakis)
- Theme: Synthesis of cooperatives and commons
5. Civilizational and Macro-Historical Texts
These texts situate commons transition in a long-term historical perspective.
- P2P and Human Evolution
- Status: Earlier work integrated in CommonsTransition thinking
- Theme: Peer-to-peer as evolutionary logic
7. Surviving Archives and Access Points
The CommonsTransition corpus is now distributed across multiple repositories.
Primary Reconstruction Nodes
- Commons Transition Primer
- P2P Foundation Wiki
Institutional Mirrors
- Transnational Institute (TNI)
- Heinrich Böll Foundation
- City of Ghent publications
Direct PDF Archives
- /wp-content/uploads/ links (many still active)
- NGO and academic repositories
Secondary Publications
- Reality Sandwich
- Conference and research platforms
9. Conceptual Structure
The CommonsTransition corpus can be understood as a three-layer architecture:
- Political layer → Partner State
- Economic layer → Commons-based production
- Territorial layer → Urban/bioregional transition
Together, they form a proto-model of a commons-centric civilization.