How to Create a Thriving Global Commons Economy

* Article: . By Vasilis Kostakis and Michel Bauwens. Next Economy, 2019

URL = https://thenextsystem.org/learn/stories/how-create-thriving-global-commons-economy

Abstract

"Not since Marx identified Manchester’s manufacturing plants as blueprints for the new capitalist society have our political economy’s fundamentals faced a more profound transformation. As structural crises beset capitalism, a new mode of production is emerging: commons-based peer production.

Why is this emerging mode of production so important in discussions about post-capitalist futures? And how can participants in commons-based peer production— the “commoners”—make sustainable livings, thereby creating a thriving global commons economy within and beyond capitalism?

Here’s why and how."