P2P Public Intellectuals

Context

A list of people oriented towards thinking about a sharing, commons, p2p oriented society.

We started compiling this list until 2012, but at the prompt of Simon Grant, we are now trying to make it useful through a topical organization, so that you can find experts, researchers etc .. in specific domains of action.

This list is male-dominated, while this list is larger and exclusively female, see 100 Women Who Are Co-Creating the P2P Society; we hope to integrate them if time.

To do list:

• categorize all the names by topic, topics in alphabetical order, names within topic in alphabetical order

• integrate 100 Women list in this master list

• consider this as an introdoctury selection to our much larger biographical directory section, Category:Bios , which contains nearly 1,200 biographies.

Public Intellectuals

General

1. Michel Bauwens **, P2P Theory, founder of P2P Foundation; Bibliography of Michel Bauwens
2. Yochai Benkler *, legal scholar, author of the classic study of Peer Production, i.e. the Wealth of Networks
3. David Bollier **, author of Viral Spiral, foremost commons scholar, now working on emerging Commons Law framework
4. Sally Goerner: on mutualism and the next 'integral' civilisation
5. Neal Gorenflo **, editor of Shareable magazine, on sharing as a social practice

Politics

1. Amelia Andersdotter (wikipedia), Pirate Party, Sweden
2. Rick Falkvinge, Pirate Party founder
3. Mayo Fuster-Morell, European social movements, modalities of open source and platform governance
4. Michael Gurstein, community networks
5. Joss Hands *, digitally-empowered political activism

Economics

1. Adam Arvidsson **, on the ethical economy
2. Marvin Brown ** , Civilizing the Economy, on civic economics
3. Axel Bruns, theorizing Produsage
4. Allen Butcher, expert on Community Economics
5. Chris Carlsson *, Nowtopia, on local productive economic associations
6. Kevin Carson **, mutualism, relocalized production
7. Chris Cook, Open Capital
8. David de Ugarte **, on Phyles as a new global organisational form
9. Lisa Gansky *, on the Mesh Economy

Commons-Oriented Economists

(This list is updated here: Commons-Oriented Economists); it should be integrated with the above.

A list originally compiled by David Bollier:

1. Peter Barnes, Pt. Reyes Station, California (former entrepreneur; commons; Sky Trust)
2. Yochai Benkler, Harvard Law School (digital commons; not an economist, but he might as well be)
3. Sam Bowles, Santa Fe Institute (economics as seen through complexity theory & evolutionary sciences)
4. James Boyce, UMass Amherst (ecological economics)
5. Herman Daly, steady-state economics
6. Gerald Epstein, UMass Amherst (cooperatives)
7. Josh Farley, U. of Vermont (ecological economics, community development)
8. Nancy Folbre, UMass Amherst (feminist economics/caring economy)
9. Katherine Gibson, Australia (community economics; former writing partner with the late Julie Graham, a.k.a., J.-K. Gibson-Graham)
10. Wolfgang Hoeschele, Truman State University, Missouri (Solidarity Economy, commons)
11. David Korten, author
12. Richard Norgaard, UC Berkeley
13. Elinor Ostrom, Arizona State & Indiana U. (commons; not an economist, but she might as well be)
14. Wolfgang Sachs, Wuppertal Institute, Germany

Legal

1. James Boyle, against IP enclosures
2. Yochai Benkler *, legal scholar, author of the classic study of Peer Production, i.e. the Wealth of Networks

Technological

1. Arthur Brock, Open Money, USA
2. Jaromil, hacker

Social

1. Manuel Castells, networked society

Educational

1. Stephen Downes, peer learning

Spiritual

1. Charles Eisenstein *, author of The Ascent of Humanity and Sacred Economics
2. Jorge Ferrer **, participatory spirituality

Gender

1. Silvia Federici: [1], role of women in the commons

Labor

1. Alex Foti, precarious workers movement, Italy

Governance / Organisational Theory

1. Alexander Galloway, Protocollary Power in networks

Money

1. Thomas Greco **, Open Money and Credit Commons

Still to classify

1. Paul Hartzog **, on complexity, panarchy, and global governance
2. Silke Helfrich **, commons researcher and advocate
3. John Heron **, participatory spirituality, cooperative inquiry
4. Pekka Himanen, the hacker ethic
5. Dougald Hine
6. Brian Holmes
7. Wolfgang Hoeschele **, economics of abundance
8. Pat Kane **, author the Play Ethic
9. Athina Karatzogianni **, cyberconflicts
10. Dmytri Kleiner **, anti-capitalist peer production through Venture Communism
11. Lawrence Lessig, IP law, creator of Creative Commons
12. Simona Levi **, founder and leader of the Free Culture Forum
13. Bernard Lietaer, monetary reform and transformation
14. Alessandro Ludovico, Neural.it, p2p art and culture, Italy
15. Ezio Manzini **, local mutual aid oriented inititiatives by civil society groups
16. Ugo Mattei, commons law, italian/european commons movement
17. Alan McCluskey, community-based learning
18. Armin Medosch
19. Massimo Menichinelli, on Open Design
20. Glyn Moody, active free software advocate and commentator
21. Phoebe Moore **, global labour trends
22. Matteo Pasquinelli, conflicts in the knowledge economy
23. George Pór **, theorizing Collective Intelligence
24. Mathieu O'Neill **, governance of open source communities
25. Apichai Puntasen, Thailand, Buddhist Economics
26. James Quilligan **, theorizing the Global Commons
27. John Robb *, open source insurgencies and resilient communities
28. Andy Robinson, social movement thinker, UK
29. David Ronfeldt**
30. Douglas Rushkoff **, author, development of democratic cyber culture
31. Sam Rose **, peer production and local communities, open p2p infrastructures
32. Nikos Salingaros **, on P2P Urbanism
33. Juliet Schor *, economics of abundance
34. Trebor Scholz **, distributed creativity
35. Orsan Senalp**, p2p and labor
36. Clay Shirky *, the Cognitive Surplus making possible bottom-up Peer Production
37. George Siemens, connectivist learning
38. Felix Stalder, theorizing free culture and open movements
39. Richard Stallman, founder of free software
40. Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics
41. Tiziana Terranova, exploitation of free labour in networks
42. Tere Vaden **, the Political Economy of Digital Literacy
43. Jeff Vail *, a theory of distributed power
44. Roberto Verzola **, on the economics of abundance and scarcity
45. Eric von Hippel *, user-led innovation in industrial production
46. Hilary Wainwright **, democratic and participatory public services, and the link between the commons and labour
47. Jay Walljasper **, All That We Share, on the emergence of local commons initiatives
48. Mackenzie Wark *, author of the Hacker's Manifesto, a class analysis of the Hacking Class
49. Steve Webber, author of the Success of Open Source
50. Catherine Casserly, CEO of Creative Commons